Too often we decide to follow a path that is not really our own; one that others have set for us. We forget that whichever way we go, the price is the same: in both cases we will pass through both difficult and happy moments. But when we are living our dream, the difficulties we encounter make sense.

~Paulo Coelho


You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

~Jerry Gillies


The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

~George Bernard Shaw


The Climb

A small boy heard the mountain speak,
"There are secrets on my highest peak;
but beware, my boy, the passing of time.
Wait not too long to start the climb."

So quickly come and go the years,
and a young man stands below- with fears.
"Come on-come on," the mountain cussed
"Time presses on-on, climb you must."

Now he's busied in middle-aged prime,
and maybe tomorrow he'll take the climb.
now is too soon - it's raining today
Gone all gone - years are eaten away.

An old man looks up - still feeling the lure.
Yet, he'll suffer the pain - not climb for the cure.
The hair is white - the step is slow.
And it's safer and warmer to stay here below.

So all too soon the secrets are buried,
along with him and regrets he carried.
And it's not for loss of secrets he'd cried,
But rather because he'd never tried.

~Phyllis Trussier