Sometimes life gets a little challenging: that's when you fight back.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are. – Bernice
Johnson Reagan

You're not a tree

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. – Jim Rohn

Talk Talk - It's My Life
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It's My Life/Don't you forget

The secret

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer

 

Try it your way

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

RIP Harvey Pekar

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy and a tragedy. – Mark Twain

"I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing," he said.
What mattered most to Harvey Pekar was that people appreciate their own latent abilities, the power of the every day. Ordinary life, he liked to say, is pretty complex stuff.

You got the Power!

All serious daring starts from within. - Eudora Welty

Before it's too late

Life goes by rapidly. Don't delay. Don't put it off. Don't wait until you have some spare time. Don't wait until the time's "right". - Ken Keyes

I had a dream last night
I dreamt that I was swimming
And the stars up above
Directionless and drifting
Somewhere in the dark
Were the sirens and the thunder
And around me as I swam
The drifters who'd gone under

Time love
Time love
Time love
It's only a change of time

I had a dream last night
And rusting far below me
Battered hulls and broken hardships
Leviathan and Lonely
I was thirsty so I drank
And though it was salt water
There was something 'bout the way
It tasted so familiar

The black clouds I'm hanging
This anchor I'm dragging
The sails of memory rip open in silence
We cut through the lowlands
All hands through the saltlands
The white caps of memory
Confusing and violent

I had a dream last night
And when I opened my eyes
Your shoulder blade your spine
Were shorelines in the moon light
New worlds for the weary
New lands for the living
I could make it if I tried
I closed my eyes I kept on swimming

(rough seas they carry me wherever I go)

Don't worry about the little things, but nourish them as equally as everything else

We must not allow the ignoble to injure the noble, or the smaller to injure the greater. Those who nourish the smaller parts will become small men. Those who nourish the greater parts will become great men. – Meng Tzu (Mencius)

Spaceship Earth

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. – Buckminster Fuller

US Pavilion, Buckminster Fuller, 1967

Life: It's there for the taking

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. – Oscar Wilde

No caffeine. Never had it, never will

Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be. – Grandma Moses

"No caffeine, never had it, never will."

Simple

Everything is simple --reality is simple. It seems complex only because of ignorance; otherwise everything is simple. Once you know it, it becomes simple. The knowing is bound to be difficult not because of reality, remember, but because of your mind. - Osho

There is no spoon

It's out there

I know there's an answer
I know now but I had to find it by myself – Beach Boys, I Know There’s an Answer

 

Once again... know thyself

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

-Immanuel Kant

My Idea of Fun

You can choose what you do; you can’t choose what you like to do. – Gretchen Rubin

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

Sand the Floor

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

- Galileo Galilei 

 

We truck in the real

What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed. - Edward St. John Gorey

 

 

 

It's Alive!!

When you feel most alive, find out why. This is one guest you won't greet twice. - Kabir

Hammock - Breathturn from David Altobelli on Vimeo.

Once You've Got it, Don't Let It Go

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. - Anonymous