Never Let Go of Your Dreams

One of the most influential pieces of encouragement that I was fortunate to read was this passage . . .         "It is not in the nature of man--nor of any living entity--to start out by giving up, by spitting in one's own face and damning existence; that requires a process of correction whose rapidity differs from man to man.  Some give up at the first touch of pressure; some sell out; some run down by imperceptible degrees and lose their fire, never knowing when or how they lost it.  Then all these vanish in the vast...