Inspiration

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. —George Bernard Shaw

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” Henry David Thoreau

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.

-          Tennessee Williams

 

you and I we’re like 4 year olds

we want to know why and how come about everything
we want to reveal ourselves at will and speak our minds

 and never talk small and be intuitive
and question mightily

 and find god my tortured beacon
we need to find like-minded companions

Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. It is not just in some; it is in everyone. And, as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years, and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation. ~George Bernard Shaw

Don’t ever say you’re on your way down, when
God gave you style and gave you grace
And put a smile upon your face

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.  —Where I lived and What I Lived For, Thoreau 

Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.–Woody Allen

This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time:  I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts brings with it consequences, so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it…Therefore, I must calculate carefully every move so as to achieve the maxium of erasure with the minimum of recomplication.   -If On A Winter Night, A Traveler