Quotes added on Friday, October 28 2016
I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so… heroic.
To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile
without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for
the shortage of love in the world with more love in small,
private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show
greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from
mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.
—Hermann Hesse
You have to know what you stand for,
not just what you stand against.
THE
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN an ordinary life
and an extraordinary one is only a matter of perspective.
Pull the blinds. Look around you. It is a weird wonderful
world and you do not require a ten digit bank account to
immerse yourself in it. Travel down dusty roads without a
destination in mind. Climb a mountain and scream out into
the void. Kiss a stranger. Skinny dip in a lake. Get lost
and lose yourself (these are two separate things). Explore
the wilderness (particularly the one within). Think less of
destiny and more of the moment right here. Because when you
are nearing the end of your life, surrounded by all of your
family and friends, fame won’t matter, nor will the
extent of your wealth—you are the sum of the stories
you can tell.
And It's not theirs to
s p e c u l a t e if it's
wrong.
I'm falling apart at the seams,
pitching myself for leads in other people's dreams. Like
buzz, buzz
Doc,
there's a
Hole where
something was.
