Excerpt-16 March, 2019

One

I hope you see things that startle you.

I hope you feel things you never felt before.

I hope you meet people with a different point of view.

I hope you live a life you’re proud of.

If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Two

Jack: Listen, Rose. You’re gonna get out of here, you’re gonna go on, and you’re gonna make a lots of babies, and you’re gonna watch them grow. You’re gonna die and old…an old lady warm in her bed, not here, not this night. Not like this. do you understand me?

Three

You are the books you read, the films you watch, the music you listen to, the people you meet, the dreams you have, and the conversations you engage in. You are what you take from these.

You are the sound of the ocean, the breath of fresh air, the brightest light and the darkest corner.

You are every single day.

Four

If you think you are beaten, you are.

If you think you dare not, you don’t.

If you want to win, but think you can’t, it’s almost a cinch you won’t.

If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost; for out in the world we find success begins with a fellow’s will. It’s all in the state of the mind.

Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger and faster man.

But sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

Five

“Just that,” said the fox. “To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…”