"Only principles endure."

One thing that becomes clearer & clearer to me as years nip by - strip away the fluff, furor & fantasy from life & what remains are the principles which guide us. 

That is a sobering reality.

And we cannot be judges of the principles of others - any others.  We cannot even be assured that what we think are our own actually are.  They are our defining factor, yet we cannot know whether what we feel is core to our being, our values, our actions actually is what we sense it is.

All we can do, every day, is to do the best we can to be the best we can, within whatever circumstances present themselves.  To know the values we hope to embody & give our all to make that so.

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