"I don't know how it gets better than this!!! You take my hand and drag me headfirst...Fearless! And I don't know why, but with you I dance-in a storm in my best dress-Fearless."

Sometimes...you didn't know you could win the battle until you look behind you and realize you have an army at your back...

Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. And so we ask ourselves: will our actions echo across the centuries? Will strangers hear our names long after we are gone, and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercely we loved? 

"In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true."

Lost your balance on a tightrope
Lost your mind tryin' to get it back

Wasn't it easier in your lunchbox days?
Always a bigger bed to crawl into
Wasn't it beautiful when you believed in everything
And everybody believed in you?

"'Before the end my heart was broken down.
I slumped on the trampled sand and cried aloud,
caring no more for life or the light of day,
and rolled there weeping, till my tears were spent.'"

"If we are always arriving and departing, it is also
true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination
is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."

So thankful...for tiny blessings, for gigantic blessings.

For surviving and enduring and evolving.

Desiring to become a better person is easy.

Transforming into one is hard.

Feeling despair can be devastating. 

Being given the gift of a renewed hope is invaluable.

Perspective and hope are  vital and irreplaceable. 

For once.

This moment.

Peace.