cartoon – Blackberry Fort

Keep Going

“Even talent is rarely distinguishable over the long run from perseverance and lots of hard work.” ~ Bayles and Orland

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Just because you like Jimi Hendrix doesn’t mean you can play like Jimi Hendrix.” ~ Anthony Bourdain

“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.” ~ E.B. White

“You are unlikely to have a good and meaningful life unless you can overcome your insatiability.” ~ William Irvine

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut

“Our lives, thanks to their finitude are inevitably full of activities that we’re doing for the very last time.” ~ Oliver Burkeman

“We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.” ~ Stephen Covey

“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.” ~ Walter Mosley

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.” ~ Henry David Thoreau