we chase the splendid because we've never seen something greater.

i don't mind dying in a pursuit of God

even if i do it my whole life and don't find Him in the end.

what i fear is dying

while

i persist learning

for the sake of learning

while

i work up a life

for the sake of living.

and michael you would fall, and turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime

Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal