magnificently unprepared/for the long littleness of life.
Saturday, June 09, 2007
quitters never win
winners never quit
but those who never win and never quit are morons.
something to chew on, as the days grind on.
but!
Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
-Henry Van Dyke
shouts the inexpertly-painted nuh jungle mural in the basement that shares wall space with self-aggrandising posters trumpeting improvements in patient treatment algorithms. i saw this every single day of my chens-less csfc posting. i am... comforted? by its warm endorsement of enthusiastic mediocrity. but still very strongly aware of the fact that (our unofficial league team cheer follows)
what's fun?
winning's fun!
so's being the best at what you do. oh well.
+ fictions&fires
10:39 PM
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plangere, latin: to strike, or to lament.
in the depth of winter i finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
--albert camus
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to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
-- ee cummings
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