TFTD

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. 

You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. 

You realize that you control your own destiny."  Albert Ellis

 

Out of the night that covers me, 
Black as the pit from pole to pole, 
I thank whatever G-d may be, 
For my unconquerable soul. 

In the fell clutch of circumstance, 
I have not cried nor winced aloud, 
Under the bludgeoning of chance, 
My head is bloody but unbowed. 

Beyond this place of wrath and tears 
Looms but the horror of the shade, 
And yet the menace of the years 
Finds and shall find me unafraid. 

It matters not how straight the gate, 
How charged with punishments the scroll, 
I am the captain of my fate, 
I am the master of my soul. 
William Earnest Henley, 1875

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