Sublime

A human life was about to end, but the balls kept pouring forth in an endless stream. It felt as if someone was making fun of him.

Will I bravely hold my plane’s course steady, knowing that at the moment of contact my body will explode in a ball of flames and kill so many of my so-called enemy, whom I have never met and whom I cannot hate? Or will cowardice (or my better human nature) rally one last time, just long enough to nudge my hand on the control stick and turn my plane

conducting oneself in such a way as to not be disliked by anyone is an extremely unfree way of living,

Somewhere, surrendering to what seemed to be your fate had changed from being dignified to being a sign of your own cowardice.

Admitting mistakes, conveying words of apology, and stepping down from power struggles—none of these things is defeat. The pursuit of superiority is not something that is carried out through competition with other people.

When one seeks recognition from others, and concerns oneself only with how one is judged by others, in the end, one is living other people’s lives.

“No matter what has occurred in your life up to this point, it should have no bearing at all on how you live from now on.” That you, living in the here and now, are the one who determines your own life.

maverick.