Cleaning out papers. Some quotations that have been stapled to walls.

[UTUSN]

Achilles, be not you relentless!
Men will honor you as though a god
If you give up your anger. Relent!
Only Death does not relent and is implacable.
That is why men hate Death so.
 Book 9, The Iliad

Progress does not consist in looking for a direction in which one can go on indefinitely. True progress consists in looking for a place where we can stop.
-- G. K. Chesterton

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.
 Dr Robert ANTHONY

When you’re LOST in the wild, and you’re SCARED As a child,
And DEATH looks you BANG in the eye,
And you’re sore as a boil, it’s according to Hoyle
To cock your revolver and … DIE.

But the code of a man says, “Fight all you can.”
And self-dissolution is barred.
In hunger and woe, oh, it’s EASY to blow …
It’s the hell-served-for-breakfast that’s hard.

You’re sick of the game! Well, not that’s a shame.
You’re young and you’re brave and you’re bright.
You’ve had a raw deal! I know — but don’t squeal.
BUCK UP, do your DAMNEDEST, and FIGHT.

It’s the PLUGGING AWAY that will win you the day.
So don’t be a piker, old pard!
Just draw on your GRIT; it’s so EASY to QUIT:
It’s the KEEPING-YOUR-CHIN-UP that’s hard.

It’s EASY to cry that you’re beaten – and DIE.
It’s easy to crawfish and crawl;
But to FIGHT and to FIGHT when hope’s out of sight,
Why, that’s the best game of them all!
 Robert SERVICE

My center gives way. My right recedes. The situation is excellent. I shall attack.
-- General FOCH

A dozen reasons why not. But there was another reason that you have not mention: You did not BELIEVE you could do it.
– Admiral FARRAGUT

*********(One from memory, perhaps misremembered: ) It's too *hard* NOT to Fall. ------(Note: "hard" as in "inflexible, rigid, over-righteous"; "Fall" as in The Fall)
-- Might be James JOYCE

[42bambi]

1. And don't be a 'Quitter" - Thanks for the post.

[UTUSN]

2. Your welcome, but it's a hard word, and easier said than done!

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3. What do you do with old relationship letters?

Background: All us English majors believed we were going to be bigger than SHAKESPEARE and that every scrap of scribbling was going to be treasure for our future biographers. So now there is a mountain of crap - my own, yes; but also stuff by others.

There are two piles of letters from a couple of relationships that were significant, like, 40 years ago. Haven't looked at them in 40 years. Now glancing really cursorily through them, there are some really moving passages. One pile is much bigger than the other. Funny but the relationship that turned out to be the final, real deal is represented only by a post card with only the address on it.

----------So. Top choice is to shred the piles. Both are still around, one with a serious and probably terminal illness. The thought has floated to mail their stuff back to them. The bigger pile one might think I'm fishing for something. (I'm not. Really.) But all involved (them, me) poured a lot into things and it shows in the piles, a shame to disappear it - but the universe don't care. Another possibility is to include it all into my entire couple of thousands of stuff I'm getting transferred into discs and shredding all the paper.

Uh, tons of ballyhooed movies have been made out of less emotion and material, but this can be just another of the final pipe dreams, self-deceptions, and movies are a dime a dozen. I spend more time scrolling through Roku/Pluto/Xumo, etc., movie titles without finding one to watch.

********What to do, Loungeteers, SHRED???????????!1 There's about another week or two to finish up and get to the shredding.