When I was a teenager I chose to memorize some passages that were meaningful to me.
One of those passages that I memorized and that I remember to this day was “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost.
At different times in my life I have recited them at times aloud and other times only in my head. Those words illuminated my mind.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Choose something that moves you. Something you find meaningful and memorize it. I hope it will have the same kind of impact on you as it has had on me.