Endurance...

Endurance is the willingness to go beyond your unmet expectations, known limits and hopes, while continuing to live life to the best of your instinct. It is the willingness to allow your actions and destiny to intermingle with those of others who do not have your perspective or interest. It is the willingness to stand in a storm, not of your making or choosing, with only the certainty of trusting yourself, your values and the actions that feel right in the moment you are in.

. Inspired by my first viewing of "The Dark Knight" (DVD) Sunday, December 14, 2008 . 3:25 am

Gabbing on:

"We are defined by that which takes us beyond our knowing, fears, limits and loves.
To endure is to grant time the opportunity to suspend our judgment and resist the temptation to act, while allowing actions to occur around us.

There is no mountain top that can be obtained without endurance, just valleys of regrettable actions."

#16 - Greatness...

"Greatness will not find you, it will grow out of you."

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Gabbing on:

"Greatness will not grow from just anything.
It demands the rich soil of paradox, pain, passion and purpose.
It demands your secrets, your fears, your anger and your silence.
It demands consistency of desire, persistence of faith and the courage to be authentic against the tide of consensus.

It will claim from you humility, commitment and creativity.
It will raise you up and dash you against your dream, only to crush your limited expectations before releasing you to soar.
Greatness will promise you nothing but grant you all things, when you choose to ignore it and not seek it out.

It will only manifest itself to you through the eyes, deeds and actions of others in response to you.

So is greatness within us yet beyond us."