Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
--Mark Twain
Explore. Dream. Discover.
--Mark Twain
"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close."
-Pablo Neruda
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely… Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
-Mark Twain
-Mark Twain
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all. From now on you'll be traveling the road between who you think you are and who you can be. The key is to allow yourself to make the journey."
to be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else-- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
- e.e. cummings
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. - Henry David Thoreau
"We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?" --Fahrenheit 451
We are our experiences.
Where are your dreams taking you?
“You know some famous guy once said ‘To travel, is better than to arrive.’ And I was like what? You know because I used to think there was only one path to take to where you want to get to be in life. But if you choose that one path, it doesn't mean you have to abandon all the other ones. I realize that it's actually what happens along the way, that counts. The stumbles...the falls...the friendships. It's the journey, not the destination. You just gotta, i guess, trust that the future will work itself out like it's supposed to.”
–Step Up 3
Seduce my mind and you can have my body. Find my soul and i am yours forever.
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. – Henry David Thoreau
Don't be afraid to go where you've never gone and do what you've never done because both are necessary to have what you've never had and be who you've never been. - Mike Dooley, Notes from the Universe
Change is the essence of life. Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love. - Rose Walker in The Sandman #65
As I write this now, it occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think as fragile is how tough they truly are… Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.
Stories… they are words on the air, composed of sounds and ideas – abstract, invisible, gone once they’ve been spoken and what could be more frail than that?‘
- Fragile Things, Neil Gaiman
Life — and I don’t suppose I’m the first to make this comparison — is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.’ – Death Talks About Life, Neil Gaiman
It isn't much, child. Just an idea. But a whole world could change because of one idea. Or one person. - The Great Tree of Avalon
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. - C.S. Lewis
It isn't much, child. Just an idea. But a whole world could change because of one idea. Or one person. - The Great Tree of Avalon
