when

when was the last time you played a hand of failure
the last time you cried your eyes out in the shower
the last time you said yes
and it shattered your heart

"it is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, because there is not effort without error and shortcomings, but who does actually strive to do the deed, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
- theodore roosevelt
"citizenship in a republic" speech at the sorbonne in paris
april 23, 1910

(nyc)