This Lullaby

Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times,

There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

Being too scared to even try it--that's just a waste.

Resistance was futile.

"One word," Ted replied, dead serious, "can change the whole world."

Riches yet poverty of the heart

In the depth of winter,
I finally learned that
within me there lay
an invincible summer.
-- Camus