The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.