Saturday, August 13, 2005

It is never too late to be who you might have been... ...

"It is never too late to be who you might have been." ~ George Elliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans)

Actually, the above is a mutated version... that actual context (in a conversation between Maggie and Phili) as researched by Alex Measday is as follows:

"I've been a great deal happier," she said, at last, timidly, "since I have given up thinking about what is easy and pleasant, and being discontented because I couldn't have my own will. Our life is determined for us - and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing and only think of bearing what is laid upon us and doing what is given us to do."

"But I can't give up wishing," said Philip, impatiently. "It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. How can we ever be satisfied without them until our feelings are deadened? I delight in fine pictures - I long to be able to paint such. I strive and strive, and can't produce what I want. That is pain to me, and always will be pain, until my faculties lose their keenness, like aged eyes. Then, there are many other things I long for" - here Philip hesitated a little, and then said - "things that other men have and that will always be denied me. My life will have nothing great or beautiful in it - I would rather not have lived."

~ George Elliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans)

Here's a motivating speech from the movie Braveheart to move you into taking immediate action to becoming who you truely are!

"Fight and you may die, run and you'll live at least a while,
and dying in your beds, many years from now,
would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that
for one chance, just one chance!
to come back here and tell our enemies that they may
take our lives but they'll never take our FREEDOM!!!"
~ William Wallace (acted by Mel Gibson)

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