Boyd Nech

“Our life is like a land journey, too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the steep grades; but, on the summits of the mountain, you have a magnificent view--and feel exalted--and your eyes are full of happy tears--and you want to sing--and wish you had wings! And then--you can't stay there, but must continue your journey--you begin climbing down the other side, so busy with your footholds that your summit experience is forgotten.”
― Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe

“Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.”
― Ayn Rand

“Press close, bare-bosomed Night!
Press close, magnetic, nourishing Night!
Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars!
Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night!

from Strophe 21, "Song of Myself”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“People looking to take offense will always find something to take it at, but then they’re the ones with the problem.”
― Lou Marinoff, Plato, Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems