Jacob Hiseley

“You have to get up every morning and decide again, in the cold lonely light of day, am I brave enough to stick this out?”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“The people who believed in me, inspired me.
The people who supported me, strengthened me.
The people who attacked me, kept me on my toes.
The people who knocked me down, kept me humble.
The people who gossiped about me, revealed my power over them.
The people who loved me, breathed hope into my heart.
The people who bet against me, were wrong.
I’m grateful beyond words for all of those people.
As the days of this precious life continue onward…
If you love me, it only gets better.
If you hate me, it only gets worse.
I’ll continue to be me… a work in progress… unapologetically.”
― Steve Maraboli

“The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.”
― Turkish Proverbs

“I knew that I was dying.
Something in me said,
Go ahead, die, sleep, become as them, accept.
Then something else in me said, no,
save the tiniest bit.
It needn't be much, just a spark.
A spark can set a whole forest on fire.
Just a spark.
Save it.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems