Various Sayings on walking the path

If you want the ultimate,

you've got to be willing to pay the ultimate price.

It's not tragic to die doing what you love.

You let someone else determine the direction your life took,

that I judge.

You can only be responsible for your own path and let others have theirs.

Nothing more than that you commit to your intent to free yourself.

That you grant yourself the license to do whatever is necessary to realize your ambitions,

at whatever risk to your alleged well-being and in full expectation of the solitude that will ensue.

All you have is your fire

and the place you need to reach.

Don't you ever tame your demons,

but always keep them on a leash.

It is not our part to master all the tides of the world,

but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set,

uprooting evil in the fields that we know,

so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.

What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.

The silence strangles me.

I almost turn back around.

No one will notice if I take a day’s leave.

No one will dare say I didn’t work hard enough.

I yawn again.

Maybe just a stretch today.

Body could use it.

Better to face tomorrow rested.

I almost cave.

But I know by now that voice of reason is the enemy.

Inside me there is a coward who fears discomfort.

That coward will offer solace in the form of excuses.

But it is the coward who grooms a man for his defeats.

The coward who makes him accept them because he is accustomed to finding a good reason to quit.

The coward inside can only be killed one way.

I toss down my pack and don my training kit.

Today is a good day to die, but the day is not yet over

Heed my words, Struggler.

Soon a rain of blood, the likes of which you cannot imagine, shall fall down upon you.

It will be a storm of death.

But take heed, Struggler.

Struggle, endure, contend.

For that alone is the sword of one who defies death. Do not forget these words.