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What we may become is ours to choose, and we may choose badly. I know only that we must choose—as I have chosen—and live by our choices.
“I wish things were different.” “Everyone does, in times like these,” I said. “But we do not choose the challenges of the day. Only our answers to them.”
“It is only that the higher we climb, the more men look to us for guidance. You cannot rule without them, and so you must rule yourself.”
In silence, they are confronted with their own natures—and with nature itself—and cannot look it in the face. As darkness brings forth the creatures of the night, so silence brings forth the things within our hearts . . . if we will but listen to it.
Every place is the center of the universe. Everything matters. Every one of our actions, every decision, every sacrifice. Nothing is without meaning, because nothing is without consequence.
