31-35, F
you're on earth. there's no cure for that. - beckett
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octoberthesixth · 31-35, F
There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
octoberthesixth · 31-35, F
They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud. p64
octoberthesixth · 31-35, F
Invictus (1888)
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY (1849-1903)
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY (1849-1903)
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
octoberthesixth · 31-35, F
[quote]Deborah was not convinced. 'Maybe you doubt that I saw it at all.'
'That is the one thing that I do not doubt,' the doctor said. 'But you see, I have no part in what is to be done on the wards; I am not an administrative doctor.'
Deborah saw the match lighting dry fuel. 'What good is your reality, when justice fails and dishonesty is glossed over and the ones who keep faith suffer. Helene kept her bargain about Ellis and so did I. What good is your reality then?'
'Look here,' Furii said. 'I never promised you a rose garden. I never promised you perfect justice . . .' (She remembered Tilda suddenly, breaking out of the hospital in Nuremburg, disappearing into the swastika-city, and coming back laughing that hard, rasping parody of laughter. 'Sholom Aleichem, Doctor, they are crazier than I am!')
'. . . and I never promised you peace or happiness. My help is so that you can be free to fight for all of these things. The only reality I offer is challenge, and being well is being free to accept it or not at whatever level you are capable. I never promise lies, and the rose-garden world of perfection is a lie . . . and a bore, too!'
'Will you bring it up at the meeting - about Helene?'
'I said I would and I will, but I promise nothing.'
'That is the one thing that I do not doubt,' the doctor said. 'But you see, I have no part in what is to be done on the wards; I am not an administrative doctor.'
Deborah saw the match lighting dry fuel. 'What good is your reality, when justice fails and dishonesty is glossed over and the ones who keep faith suffer. Helene kept her bargain about Ellis and so did I. What good is your reality then?'
'Look here,' Furii said. 'I never promised you a rose garden. I never promised you perfect justice . . .' (She remembered Tilda suddenly, breaking out of the hospital in Nuremburg, disappearing into the swastika-city, and coming back laughing that hard, rasping parody of laughter. 'Sholom Aleichem, Doctor, they are crazier than I am!')
'. . . and I never promised you peace or happiness. My help is so that you can be free to fight for all of these things. The only reality I offer is challenge, and being well is being free to accept it or not at whatever level you are capable. I never promise lies, and the rose-garden world of perfection is a lie . . . and a bore, too!'
'Will you bring it up at the meeting - about Helene?'
'I said I would and I will, but I promise nothing.'
octoberthesixth · 31-35, F
"The worst thing about betrayal is that it doesn't come from enemies"
octoberthesixth · 31-35, F
It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high.
octoberthesixth · 31-35, F
We human beings are bound in an utterly degrading fashion to the world by its man-made laws and so-called civilisation, but we can free ourselves by allowing love into our hearts. The path of love is not easy, however, since it causes as much pain as joy - but pain is 'the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self', and 'the deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain'. Only through this path of love can a human being hope to fulfil his or her potential, which is nothing less than divinity.
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