#life

"No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten."

"A #startup is as fragile as a flower, and it needs a garden and a gardener to help it grow. Those gardens are called Business Incubators."

"Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live"

"Noah [10w] God, I love rain too ~but this is fucking ridiculous!"

"Every man should believe in something.If not..he would doubt everything, even himself."

"I collect art, and I drink wine... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, 'I'm going to buy art to impress this crowd.' That's just ridiculous to me. I don't live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?"

"At this point in my life - age 24 - I have chosen a fairly strange path that not many are walking. I am a professional spoken word poet who tours the world performing and teaching. I run an organization called Project VOICE dedicated to using this art form as an education and empowerment tool in schools and communities of all kinds."

"From the Slobodan Milošević interview during the the Hague Tribunal : 'What are your hobbies?' [10w] "I enjoy gardening because weeding reminds me of ethnic cleansing."

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

"They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them?"

"I'm Not Talking About Fruitcake [10w] The greatest gifts are the ones that can be regifted."

"I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself."

"She had coffee-colored eyes, if java were blue-green, and we made love like nobody was watching, which is probably why the audience demanded a refund for our poor performance."

"...people with nothing to declare carry the most."

"Chlorophylia [10w] + {Couplet} Few things amaze as the paletteof the autumn blaze."

"Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss."

"There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for."

"Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief."

"I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself."

"That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner."