‘Do it NOW. The FUTURE is promised to no one’. Kushandwizdom.
The Flying Dutchman
Unyielding in the pride of his defiance,
Afloat with none to serve or to command
Lord of himself at last, and all by science,
He seeks the vanished land.
Alone, by the light of his one thought,
He steers to find the shore from which he came,
Fearless of in what coil he may be caught
On seas that have no name.
Into the night he sails, and after night
There is a dawning, thought there be no sun;
Wherefore, with nothing but himself in sight,
Unsighted he sails on.
At last there is a listing of the cloud
Between the flood before him and the sky;
And then– though he may curse the Power aloud
That has no power to die–
He steers himself away from what is haunted
By the old ghost of what has been before,–
Abandoning, as always, and undaunted,
One fog-walled island more.
Edwin Arlington Robinson.
‘20 years from now you’ll be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
EXPLORE. DREAM. DISCOVER
Mark Twain
‘The most dangerous risk of all- the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later’. Unknown.
‘I would rather own little and see the world and own the world and see little of it’. Alexander Sattler.
The following is a quote which hung on a wall at my home as long as I remember and which has guided me through good and bad times.
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying ‘Amen’ to what the world tells you you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
R.L.Stevenson