One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Topic: Goals, Leadership, Purpose
- Location: Glacier National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
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