'TIS FAR BETTER TO DARE MIGHTY THINGS (in AA)...
...THAN TO TAKE RANK WITH (those poor cowards) THAT KNOW NEITHER VICTORY NOR DEFEAT'...
-Teddy Roosevelt
DARE MIGHTY THINGS
'In the battle of life, it is not the critic who counts; nor the one who points out how the strong person stumbled, or where the doer of a deed could have done better.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those timid spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat'.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those timid spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat'.
The credit belongs to the person 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 no effort without error and shortcoming; who does actually strive to do deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, spends oneself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if he or she fails, at least fails while daring greatly'.
-Theodore Roosevelt
As I sit here preparing for my final exams for my Masters at NYU, I just wanted to thank all of you who made this possible - especially my sponsor, David J.
If you have a sponsor who is telling you to 'take it easy' - run - run as fast as you can. Be all you can be - life is way to short to be ordinary. And in this case, humility is for the feint of heart. Dare to be mighty - if your friends tell you that you have an ego problem, they are just lonely in their mediocrity. Trust me - envy is the cheapest and most plentiful of all human defects of charachter. If your friends are not encouraging you to dare to be great in AA, than find new friends.
AA is the greatest thing that ever happened to me - if I live to be 1000 I can never say THANK YOU ENOUGH.
God bless us all, every one.
COG, 1st Cl.|
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Welcome as a witness to a fools journey out of the darkness. I welcome all tidings - you are all my teachers on this path toward a meaningful and purposeful sobriety.
COG, 1st Cl.