I hope you are encouraged by these words and they change all of our lives forever.

"Anything may be betrayed, anyone may be forgiven. But not those who lack the courage of their own greatness."

"It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man’s proper stature—and the rest will betray it.

It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning—and it is those few that I have always sought to address.

The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or “The Fountainhead” that they will betray: it is their own souls."

~ Ayn Rand, 20th century Objectivist philosopher

“A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That’s control.

Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That’s abandon.

A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind.

No one can push him; no one can make him do things against himself or against his better judgment.

A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions.”

~ Carlos Castaneda