It Matters Not How Straight the Gate

“Never let anyone dull your sparkle”― Marilyn Monroe

“Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings 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 strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.”
― William Ernest Henley, Invictus

Unafraid
Unbowed
Unconquerable
Renewed
Refreshed
Resilient
Joy
Peace
Sparkle
Choose daily
Fight the good fight
Fear defeated by love
Again and again
Captain of my soul.

“Many a time freedom has been rolled back – and always for the same sorry reason: fear.” – Molly Ivins