Humpty Dumpty Will Power

Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength. – Anonymous

Falling to Pieces - Faith No More

Back and forth, I sway with the wind
Resolution slips away again
Right through my fingers, back into my heart
Where it's out of reach and it's in the dark
Sometimes I think I'm blind
Or I may be just paralyzed
Because the plot thickens every day
And the pieces of my puzzle keep crumblin' away
But I know, there's a picture beneath
Indecision clouds my vision
No one listens...
Because I'm somewhere in between
My love and my agony
You see, I'm somewhere in between
My life is falling to pieces
Somebody put me together
Layin' face down on the ground
My fingers in my ears to block the sound
My eyes shut tight to avoid the sight
Anticipating the end, losing the will to fight
Droplets of "yes" and "no"
In an ocean of "maybe"
From the bottom, it looks like a steep incline
From the top, another downhill slope of mine
But I know, the equilibrium's there
Indecision clouds my vision
No one listens
Because I'm somewhere in between
My love and my agony
You see, I'm somewhere in between
My life is falling to pieces
Somebody put me together

If you never try, you'll never know what you're worth

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow. – Mary Ann Radmacher

"Fix You" Coldplay
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When you try your best, but you don't succeed
When you get what you want, but not what you need

But if you never try you'll never know
Just what you're worth

I ain't afraid of nuthin'. Nothin'

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. – Dorothy Thompson

What is there to be afraid of, anyway?

Our thoughts are stronger, too

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. - James Allen

In our lives we hunger for those we cannot touch.
All the thoughts unuttered and all the feelings unexpressed
Play upon our hearts like the mist upon our breath.
But, awoken by grief, our spirits speak
How could you believe that the life within the seed
That grew arms that reached
And a heart that beat.
And lips that smiled
And eyes that cried.
Could ever die?

Here come the blue skies here comes springtime.
When the rivers run high & the tears run dry.
When everything that dies.
Shall rise.

It's just a change in me...

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form... happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. - Charles L. Morgan

 

Be Good Just Because

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. I am not afraid. – Marcus Aurelius

Continue to Play - It could save your humanity

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. – Ralph Ellison

It's out there

I know there's an answer
I know now but I had to find it by myself – Beach Boys, I Know There’s an Answer

 

Once again... know thyself

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

-Immanuel Kant

Getting More Smarter

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. - John Keats

And Just because I couldn't resist:

Dream Big

You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

-George Bernard Shaw 

Auggie Wrenn's Christmas Story

Facing yourself (but really we don't know how it will end)

You can gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Hold your grandmother's Bible to your breast.
Gonna put it to the test.
You want it to be blessed.
And in your heart,
You know it to be true,
You know what you gotta do.
They all depend on you.
And you already know.
Yeah, you already know how this will end.

There is no escape,
From the slave-catchers' songs.
For all of the loved ones gone.
Forever's not so long.
And in your soul,
They poked a million holes.
But you never lettem show.
C'mon it's time to go.

And
You
Already know.
Yeah, you already know
How this will end.

Now you've seen his face.
And you know that there's a place,
In the sun,
For all that you've done,
For you and your children.
No longer shall you need.
You always wanted to believe,
Just ask and you'll receive,
Beyond your wildest dreams.

And
You
Already know.
Yeah, you already know
How this will end.

You already know (You already know)
You already know (you already know)
You already love will end.

Keep on keepin' on

When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place. ~ Unknown

 

Tiny Steps

Even a little progress is freedom from fear. – Bhagavad Gita

 

And love is not the easy thing
The only baggage you can bring...
And love is not the easy thing...
The only baggage you can bring
Is all that you can't leave behind

And if the darkness is to keep us apart
And if the daylight feels like it's a long way off
And if your glass heart should crack
And for a second you turn back
Oh no, be strong

Walk on, walk on
What you got, they can't steal it
No they can't even feel it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight...

You're packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been
A place that has to be believed to be seen
You could have flown away
A singing bird in an open cage
Who will only fly, only fly for freedom

Walk on, walk on
What you got they can't deny it
Can't sell it or buy it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight

And I know it aches
And your heart it breaks
And you can only take so much
Walk on, walk on

Home...hard to know what it is if you never had one
Home...I can't say where it is but I know I'm going home
That's where the heart is

I know it aches
How your heart it breaks
And you can only take so much
Walk on, walk on

Leave it behind
You've got to leave it behind
All that you fashion
All that you make
All that you build
All that you break
All that you measure
All that you steal
All this you can leave behind
All that you reason
All that you sense
All that you speak
All you dress up
All that you scheme... 

It's Your Choice

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong.  The amount of work is the same. - don Juan Matus, as quoted by Carlos Castaneda

I could listen to all my friends

and go out again

and pretend it's enough

or I could make a career of being blue

I could dress in black and read Camus

smoke clove cigarettes and drink vermouth

Create your life

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of. – Geri Weitzman

 

Sad Songs Really Do Say So Much

Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else. – Wayne Coyne (The Flaming Lips)

You are your own obstacle

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have the power to change yourself

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world... as in being able to remake ourselves. - Mohandas K. Gandhi

Sit, just sit. Breathe, just breathe

You need not do anything. 

Remain sitting at your table and listen.

You need not even listen, just wait.

You need not even wait, just learn to be quiet, still and solitary.

And the world will freely offer itself to you unmasked.

It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

- Franz Kafka

Breathe, Just Breathe (sit, just sit)