#life

"Amputees Smart phones and the internet are the prosthetics our century cannot live without.Until we can put them down to take a quiet walk in the woods,we are all amputees."

"Note to Self: Patent #10w Diving Mask for fish filled with water when oceans disappear."

"Unfortunately, religion often works to shrink and tame the very wild and mysterious forces that first drew our wonder. In the process of making the inexplicable safe for the masses, the possibilities for real illusion-piercing insight becomes reduced. One might say that they are only available to those who dare to ride the breaking crest of direct life-altering experience."

"We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to."

"How to Exercise Caution [10w] Walk in the counsel of the wickedon your treadmill."

"Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't."

"Minus One [10w] We more people we fuckthe more lonely we become."

"A Dream Come True [10w] A dream come true is a nightmare in the making."

"Doldrums People who live in the doldrumscan't throw caution to the wind."

"In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the life of the ones you love, people aren't so willing to make those sacrifices. When they do, they are set apart from the rest of us."

"Changing is what people do when they have no options left."

"You can forget that other people carry pieces of your own story around in their heads. I've always thought--put together all those random pieces form everyone who's ever known you from your parents to the guy who once sat next to you on a bus, and you'd probably see a fuller version of your life than you even did while living it."

"This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope."

"The strands of DNA are like strings, and it’s as if I am a walking guitar, a musical being whose vibration can be heard as love."

"One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger."

"And when I raised myself to look at the man who’d spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall."

"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."

"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."

"I would say I'm an inspirational guidelines book. You can take my life story or scenarios or songs and relate to them and apply them to your everyday life."

"Love's Reward [10w] + {Couplet} Love repaid is love's reward;recompense fair towards being adored."