You are who you are. And you are wonderful.

To dream of the person you wish to be is to waste the person you are. - Anonymous

Little by little...

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. - Booker T. Washington

Your life; your choice

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. - William Jennings Bryan

Try it your way

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. - Marcus Aurelius

Stop making excuses

The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you. – Tom Bradley

Choose

Man is born as a seed; he can become a flower, he may not. It all depends on you, what you do with yourself; it all depends on whether you grow or you don´t. It is your choice-- and each moment the choice has to be faced; each moment you are on the crossroads. - Osho

So why did I do it? I could offer a million answers, all false. The truth is that I'm a bad person, but that's going to change, I'm going to change. This is the last of this sort of thing. I'm cleaning up and I'm moving on, going straight and choosing life. I'm looking forward to it already. I'm going to be just like you: the job, the family, the fucking big television, the washing machine, the car, the compact disc and electrical tin opener, good health, low cholesterol, dental insurance, mortgage, starter home, leisurewear, luggage, three-piece suite, DIY, game shows, junk food, children, walks in the park, nine to five, good at golf, washing the car, choice of sweaters, family Christmas, indexed pension, tax exemption, clearing the gutters, getting by, looking ahead, to the day you die.

What are you waiting for? Jump.

You've been walking in circles, searching. Don't drink by the water's edge. Throw yourself in. Become the water. Only then will your thirst end. - Jeanette Berson

Oh, Good Grief!

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? – Charles Schulz

Linus and Lucy - Click here for another funny movie.

Dream Big

You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

-George Bernard Shaw 

Auggie Wrenn's Christmas Story

It's Your Choice

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong.  The amount of work is the same. - don Juan Matus, as quoted by Carlos Castaneda

I could listen to all my friends

and go out again

and pretend it's enough

or I could make a career of being blue

I could dress in black and read Camus

smoke clove cigarettes and drink vermouth

That's so...... boring!

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. - Sir Cecil Beaton

Fernand Leger - Ballet mecanique (1924)

Ballet Mecanique - George Antheil

Share your extraordinary life

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself. – Jacques-Yves Cousteau

When the future finally gets here, what will you say you did?

Stop thinking about your problems; think about the results you want to attain. Defer instant gratification. Your problems won't necessarily be solved yet, but you'll be a happier person. – description of the Six of Pentacles card from thelostfound.com

I know there's an answer/I know but I had to find it by myself.

Do what you love... Part Deux, Electric Boogaloo

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. – Rumi

Impossible?

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway. – Mary Kay Ash