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If you are honest, people may deceive you. Be honest anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfishness. Be kind anyway. All the good you do today will be forgotten by others tomorrow. Do good anyway.
What you create, others can destroy. Create anyway.
“Almost? For Christ’s sake, you can’t almost get on a boat. You’re either on the boat or in the water. And when all the other buggers are in the water as well, no one gives a shit that you were the last one to end up there.”
A simple truth, repeated as often as it is ignored, is that if you tell a child it can do absolutely anything, or that it can’t do anything at all, you will in all likelihood be proven right.
“That’s always the way with sons of fathers who liked whisky a little too much: you either drink it all the time or not at all. There’s no in-between in some families.”
She knows she’s only allowed to arrive last each morning and leave first in the afternoon because she’s the best at what she does. But it’s been a long time since she felt she was the best she could be. She doesn’t have time. She’s not up to it.
