Quotes:

​“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
 

 

I've known you for a short time but I will remember you forever.

Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world.

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everyone would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from itz; whether you choose to persevere. - Barack Obama

We just hold on fast, acknowledge the past as lessons exquisitely crafted, painstakingly drafted to carve ourselves instruments that play the music of life.

My body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. - My sister Kate.

Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die,
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams.
For if dreams go,
Life is a barren field
Covered with snow.
~Langston Hughes~


Did they tell you
You should grow up
When you wanted to dream
Did they warn you
Better shape up
If you want to succeed
I don't know about you
Who are they talking to
They're not talking to me

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


There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. - Nelson Mandela