OC

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“So we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. We give ourselves a sainted mother, we make our father a hero; and someone’s older brother and someone’s older sister – they become our heroes too. We invent what we love and what we fear. There is always a brave lost brother – and a little lost sister, too. We dream on and on: the best hotel, the perfect family, the resort life. And our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them… That’s what happens, like it or not. And because that’s what happens, this is what we need: we need a good, smart bear… Coach Bob knew it all along: you’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. You have to keep passing the open windows.”
― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire