Monday, December 21, 2009

Don't let your fire go out

In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.
--Ayn Rand (1905-1982) Russian born American Writer and Philosopher

The winter wonderland outside my house following this weekend's 7" snowfall.

2 comments:

  1. That's a real nice snowy Image. Looks good!

    Les

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  2. Lovely picture and timely quote, (especially in light of what's going on with our country.)

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