Faded to black...

There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself. For you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. The universe has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate: and when our energies seem to demand a sustenance they cannot get - when our will strains after a path we may not follow - we need neither starve from initiation, nor stand still in despair: we have but to seek another nourishment for the mind, as strong as the forbidden fruit it longed to taste - and perhaps purer; and to hew out for the adventurous foot a road as direct and broad as the one Fortune has blocked up against us, if rougher than it.