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Too scared to run away
Holding fast to the break of daylight
Crooked souls trying to stay up straight
Dry eyes in the pouring rain.

Sometimes it's like clawing
Apathy grabbing at the legs of optimism
With your nails breaking
Along the stony floor

The quicksand of gravity
Wrapping its tentacles around your perfect, delicate throat
So a scream becomes a whisper
A pleading look is silenced

A bittersweet struggle; so much, too much
despite the red
and despite the looks of utter despair
complete foolish imprisonment
despite the encroaching sense of nothing

the courage of resistance
negates everything.

The man who makes a success of an important venture never wails for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticized. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility.

Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done.

 

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Happy 21st, Krystal.

All men dream but not equally.

 

Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.

"Do you ever lie awake wondering if I'm some kind of joke God is playing on you?"

"No. I lie awake worrying that you might disappear and never come back. I lie awake brooding about some of the stuff I sort of half-know about the future. But I have total faith in the idea that we're supposed to be together."

"Total faith."

"Don't you?"

"Nor time
Nor place
Nor chance
Nor death
can bow /
my least desires
unto the least remove."