In just 52 hours, we will welcome the first day of 2025, a new year, a new opportunity to strive for greatness and rise beyond the confines of our mortal limitations and societal expectations. I urge each of us to set a clear goal for who we aspire to become by the end of this year. Pursue it relentlessly, refusing to let challenges extinguish the fire of your ambitions. Life is a constant struggle, but it is in this struggle that we find meaning. Let us keep our inner flame alive, burning brightly against the encroaching darkness.
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let them be helpless like children, because weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive.
When a tree is growing, it’s tender and pliant. But when it’s dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death’s companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.
When a tree is growing, it’s tender and pliant. But when it’s dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death’s companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.