Once-time ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway was honored with the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature with these stated remarks, "...for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style."

il faut d'abord durer

French in origin the phrase translates to "first, one must last." I invite you to give me your perspective. It reminds me that we must act with the thought that our actions will be remembered for eternity.