pause and think
03 March 2009
”Travel means people: friends, touching, sensing. It’s not about just seeing. It’s the experience of Life. And the one thing you do understand about it is that in the ordinary world, generosity overpowers greed. People are, by their nature wonderfully generous. And that comes back to what wisdom thing we talked about earlier: be nice, be kind, be joyous because everybody else will be. You wake up in the morning and you say ” How did I screw up yesterday, and what I can do today that may be a little bit better? We are our own paradigm, and if someone asked me to name one word other than generosity that is a part of a necessity to survive, it’s persistence. Never, never give up. Life is about climbing a cliff, not about running a race. It’s about climbing a steep cliff, and you are hanging on with your fingernails all the way up and if you hear noises - these are people who have fallen off the cliff. He who hangs on the longest win! It’s not about breaking the tape, it’s about hanging in and persisting with your own principle and your resolve and your ambition. Most of us give up too easily. Failure is an absolute essential in life. If we never fail, How could we possibly succeed? We can only extend ourselves to the limit of what we know. Failure teaches what we don’t know. It’s essential to fail. You dare your genius to walk the wildest, unknown way. Of course, you are going to fall down. But it’s your way and when you get to the end, you’ll know something. You cannot oppress an individual, you can only oppress a society. There is no fear. There is only consequences"
- Bryce Courtenay
xoxo
