Invictus

"For him - nobody is invisible"

"I was thinking how a man could spend thirty years in prison, and come out and forgive the men who did it to him... "

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

(At the age of 12, Henley became a victim of tuberculosis of the bone.A few years later the disease progressed to his foot, and physicians announced that the only way to save his life was to amputate directly below the knee. In 1867 he would successfully pass the Oxford local examination as a senior student. In 1875 he wrote the "Invictus" poem from a hospital bed. Despite his disability, he survived with one foot intact and led an active life until the age of 53.)

...And his look was so warm when he said: "beautiful"...

Aqui sente-se

Aqui.
Aqui a janela é indiscreta. Nos reflexos, joga-se à solidão, ou ao doce calor da intimidade. E sente-se. Às vezes, por acaso. Outras, tantas, simplesmente por necessidade. Aqui, a necessidade fala alto. Sem palavras, sem abraços, sem beijos. Aqui, sente-se porque se passa demasiado tempo a sós com o sentimento. Vê-se a luz sozinha na rua. Ouve-se o compasso desconhecido no corredor. Saboreia-se o vento gretado nos lábios. Sente-se. Aqui, sente-se demasiado e demasiado só se sente. Sente-se de longe, sente-se de perto.
Sente-se, sem pressas.
Sente-se próximo.
Sente-se, aqui.

Quase

Ainda pior que a convicção do não, a incerteza do talvez
é a desilusão de um "quase".
É o quase que me incomoda, que me entristece, que
me mata trazendo tudo que poderia ter sido e não foi.

Quem quase ganhou ainda joga,
quem quase passou ainda estuda,
quem quase morreu está vivo,
quem quase amou não amou.

Basta pensar nas oportunidades que escaparam pelos dedos,
nas chances que se perdem por medo,
nas ideias que nunca sairão do papel
por essa maldita mania de viver no outono.

Pergunto-me, às vezes, o que nos leva a escolher uma vida morna;
ou melhor, não me pergunto, contesto.
A resposta eu sei de cor,
está estampada na distância e frieza dos sorrisos,
na frouxidão dos abraços,
na indiferença dos "bom dia", quase que sussurrados.
Sobra covardia e falta coragem até para ser feliz.

A paixão queima, o amor enlouquece, o desejo trai.
Talvez esses fossem bons motivos para decidir
entre a alegria e a dor, sentir o nada, mas não são.
Se a virtude estivesse mesmo no meio termo,
o mar não teria ondas, os dias seriam nublados
e o arco-íris em tons de cinza.
O nada não ilumina, não inspira, não aflige, nem acalma,
apenas amplia o vazio que cada um traz dentro de si.

Não é que fé mova montanhas,
nem que todas as estrelas estejam ao alcance,
para as coisas que não podem ser mudadas
resta-nos somente paciência,
porém, preferir a derrota prévia à dúvida da vitória
é desperdiçar a oportunidade de merecer.

Para os erros há perdão; para os fracassos, chance;
para os amores impossíveis, tempo.
De nada adianta cercar um coração vazio
ou economizar alma.
Um romance cujo fim é instantâneo ou indolor não é romance.
Não deixe que a saudade sufoque, que a rotina acomode,
que o medo impeça de tentar.

Desconfie do destino e acredite em você.
Gaste mais horas realizando que sonhando,
fazendo que planejando, vivendo que esperando
porque, embora quem quase morre esteja vivo,
quem quase vive já morreu!!


Luís Fernando Veríssimo

To remember...

"Claire Colburn: Men see things in a box, and women see them in a round room."

"Claire Colburn: I think I've been asleep most of my life.
Drew Baylor: Me too."

"Claire Colburn: What they say is, it *will* hit you, it could be ten minutes or it could be ten years from now."

"Drew Baylor: No true fiasco ever began as a quest for mere adequacy. A motto of the British Special Air Force is: 'Those who risk, win.' A single green vine shoot is able to grow through cement. The Pacific Northwestern salmon beats itself bloody on it's quest to travel hundreds of miles upstream against the current, with a single purpose, sex of course, but also... life"

"Claire Colburn: [voice over] Some music *needs* air. Roll down your window."

"Drew Baylor: I've just recently decided that the things we know aren't black and white."

"Claire Colburn: I've spent so much time thinking about all the answers to the problem, that I forget what the problem *actually* was."

"Hollie Baylor: It takes time to be funny. It takes time to extract joy from life."

"Claire Colburn: So you failed. Alright you really failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You think I care about that? I do understand. You wanna be really great? Then have the courage to fail big and stick around. Make them wonder why you're still smiling."

"Hollie Baylor: I was still waiting for everything to start, and now it's over."

"Claire Colburn: I'm going to miss your lips. And everything attached to them."

"(text written on a cloth above the stage): If it wasn't this... it'd be something else."

"Drew Baylor: And who says we have to listen to 'them'?
Claire Colburn: *They* do!"

in Elizabethtown

GREAT movie =)

After seeing "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"

“For what its worth it's never too late, or in my case too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit. Start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it; I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that startle ya. I hope you feel things that you've never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you are proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”

“Along the way you bump into people who make a dent on your life. Some people get struck by lightning. Some are born to sit by a river. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim the English Channel. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people can dance.”

In The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

«O importante não é saber muitas coisas, mas sim viver algumas»

Jorge Angel Livraga