bp1189’s most recent Quotables

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too...
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!"

I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

Depression tells me I suck, so I reply, '"I ain't here 'cause I fell down, I'm here 'cause I got up!"

I know this world is so cold and deceiving, but I keep my head up like my nose is bleeding.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

I went easy from my body but harder from my ways
I lived tall in this life but I was naked at the end of my born days