The early bird catches the worm; a stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can’t pretend we haven’t been told. We’ve all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to ‘seize the day’. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today’s possibility under tomorrow’s rug until we can’t anymore, until we finally understand for ourselves like Benjamin Franklin meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping. And that even the biggest failure, even the worst most intractable mistake beats the hell out of never trying.
— Grey’s Anatomy
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
College has eaten my soul.
That is all.
There is no elevator to success; you have to take the stairs.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
— Winston Churchill
Fearlessness is not the absence of fear, it’s the mastery of fear. It’s about getting up one more time than we fall down.
You can never really know someone completely. That’s why its the most terrifying thing in the world, really, taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, it’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet…
— Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty
And still there are times when it just gets away from you. No matter how hard you fight it, you fall. And it’s scary as hell. Except there’s an upside to freefalling. It’s the chance you give your friends to catch you.
— Grey’s Anatomy
