"When you’re young you think you can accomplish everything in one lifetime. Only with maturity does the realisation grow of how little can be done. Then a period of confusion follows during which you attempt to evolve priorities. But like as not, you find that what you want to do isn’t what your path seems to allow. So you either settle for disgruntled acquiescence or you strike out boldly.
"The self-confident have their own satisfaction: sunk in their complacency they charge forward, blind to the sensitivities of others. Those who respect their own uncertainty I reward with certainty of a kind that includes an awareness of all.
"Don’t regret what may never be done. Quietly establish your priorities, and when they cohere into a whole follow them confidently, like a mariner setting a new course by the trembling rays of dawn from a port where s/he has refueled hir ship with hope and a new energy."
"The self-confident have their own satisfaction: sunk in their complacency they charge forward, blind to the sensitivities of others. Those who respect their own uncertainty I reward with certainty of a kind that includes an awareness of all.
"Don’t regret what may never be done. Quietly establish your priorities, and when they cohere into a whole follow them confidently, like a mariner setting a new course by the trembling rays of dawn from a port where s/he has refueled hir ship with hope and a new energy."
Day of Elegy concert
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