Forwarded from The Few, The Proud
“Beyond the night that covers me, black as the unfathomable abyss, I thank the gods that could exist for my unconquered soul. – In the random clutches of circumstances I have never regretted or blinked. – Subjected to the blows of fate, my head is bloody, but upright. – Beyond this place of anger and tears where the Horror of the Shadow lies, the threat of the years finds me, and will find me, without fear. – No matter how narrow the portal is, how loaded with punishments the sentence is, I am the master of my destiny: I am the captain of my soul.”
William Ernst Henley
William Ernst Henley