WAYNE’S WORDS
Volume 3 Number 20
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You know, I am tempted to just re-post WAYNE’S WORDS - Volume 3 Number 14 – BLANK. If you have not read it – you may if you like. It is to the right in the Archives under June 2009.
I just don’t have anything for you. Maybe I have given it all. Maybe I tried really hard to entertain and now have just run out of steam and you have grown bored with me. Hell, maybe you have been reading another blog on the side and realize you like it a lot more than mine. I don’t know, all that crap happens more often than not these days.
My mind is so scattered.
At the best of times, my emotions are flat.
My heart is hollow.
God, this sounds bleak.
I guess I just need a good pep talk, some sage advice or even an enthusiastic “attaboy!”
“It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories... The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think… I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something… That there's some good in this world… and it's worth fighting for.”1
“The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place. It will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. … nobody is going to hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit, it is about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much can you take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!” 2
“Sometimes, the things that may or may not be true are the things that a man needs to believe in the most: that people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power, mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and … that love, true love, never dies… Doesn’t matter if they are true or not. A man should believe in those things because those are the things worth believing in.” 3
“If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.” 4
“It's not who you are underneath, it's what you do that defines you.” 5
“Our choices are what make us who we are. We always have the choice to do what's right.” 6
“I believe there's a hero in all of us that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady and give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams.” 7
“Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?” 8
That helps… some.
Until Next Time,
Wayne
- Sam: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- Rocky: Rocky Balboa
- Hub: Secondhand Lions
- Henri Ducard: Batman Begins
- Rachel Dawes: Batman Begins
- Peter Parker: Spiderman 3
- May Parker: Spiderman 2
- Clarence: It's a Wonderful Life
The world IS all sunshine and rainbows. The day was windy and I we couldn't light my birthday candles but I compromised and decided to pretended to blow them out. And with a wish on my mind, I took a deep breath, and blew with all my might to get all those 6 stubborn candles out! Knowing that all the wishes in world couldn't compare to what was going on at that very moment...my birthday party. My family and friends celebrating me and me celebrating them. The world is instantly a better and brighter place with family and friends and I am so glad you are my family. Uncle Beannie, you were my sunshine today! Shining through the thick of the parks' tree leaves. Mom said I couldn't call you my rainbow. Anyway, it's all in how you see the world always look at as I do, with the glass half full!
ReplyDeleteI Love You Uncle Beannie!
One of my favorite quotes that you left out. " All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing " keep on doing good my friend. In the end you will have lived a better life for it.
ReplyDeleteProfound words, especially from little bean!
ReplyDeleteYou are the most wonderful man I have ever met.
ReplyDeleteYour thoughts are the most fabulous, warm bakery, the most amazing toy shop, the coolest playground, the brightest Christmas display, the biggest bookstore, and I am simply and wistfully pressing my face to the window.
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