I am an enigma.
A contradiction in terms.
I am two extremes who've met in the middle, and split apart.
I am the calm before my storm.
I am my own best friend, and my own worst enemy.
I am my own healer, and also my own personal hell.
Only I can make me, or break me.
I am the wizened crone, in the mind of the maiden.
I am a brilliant star in a dark universe.
I am a comedian in a world that hates to laugh.
I am the caring nurse that forgets self care.
I am the prophet who sees the future in the past.
I am the voice of words already spoken.
I am the poet of things yet thought.
I smile through tears..
I cry with joy.
I fix all the others while falling apart.
I am everything no one else is, was, or ever will be.
Wore out and broken, but built better every day.
I am the student teacher..I am here to learn what I already know and teach what I'm learning.
I am an enigma.
But then, so are you.
Hot Rodder,
Metal Fabricator,
Engineer,
Photographer,
Backpacker,
Swimmer,
Philosopher,
Libertarian,
Anti Feminist,
Eagle Scout (back when that meant something),
and more
“A man’s character is his fate.”
- Heraclitus
"God is in the details"
- Mies VanDerRohe (Architect)
“Life before Death.
Strength before Weakness.
Journey before Destination.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
"I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
-Robert A. Heinlein
“If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: that was the American dream”.
- Edward Abbey
"Truth passes through three phases:
* First it is ridiculed.
* Second it is fiercely and violently opposed.
* Third, it becomes self-evident."
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
"Once I found out how imperfect I am, I stopped expecting perfection of others when I couldn’t deliver it myself."
- An older friend by the name of Skip
"There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games."
-Ernest Hemingway
"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
- Henry Lewis Mencken, 1880 – 1956
"To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster."
- Stirling Moss
"If God had meant for us to walk, why did he give us feet that fit car pedals?"
- Stirling Moss
"You can keep your soul, I don't want a cell-mate."
- Them Crooked Vultures
"Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it and spend it, rather than invest it."
- Jim Rohn
"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable."
–John Patrick
"Women in my life were like fair weather friends"
- Steven Horne
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