Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

If you really want to do something, you will find a way.
If you don't, you will find an excuse.

get dirty. get fucking filthy. get off your ass. get desperate. get dangerous. get moving. get productive. get pro-active. get started. get your own life. get doing something. anything. because before you know it you're 40 with kids, a mortgage and responsibilities that cause your fun to come second. so before cancer, before children, before 50 hour work weeks, before back and kneeproblems, before school loans, before you lose your sense of humor.. fight. fight and fuck and run and smile. smile because the older you get the less you will. so yes "quit being such a goddamn pussy" because bitching and whining and worry never made anything better.

Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating
that it excites you and scares you at the same time.
It must be a goal that is so appealing,
so much in line with your spiritual core,
that you can't get it out of your mind.
If you do not get chills when you set a goal,
you're not setting big enough goals.

-Bob Proctor

On the other side of every fear is freedom.

Take a look around you; nothing's what it seems
We're living in the broken home of hopes and dreams
Let me be the first to shake a helping hand
Anybody brave enough to take a stand
I've knocked on every door, down every dead end street
Looking for forgiveness,
And what's left to believe

Oh if there's one thing I hang on to,
That gets me through the night
I ain't gonna do what I don't want to,
I'm gonna live my life.
Shining like a diamond, rolling with the dice,
Standing on the ledge, I show the wind how to fly
When the world gets in my face,
I say,
Have A Nice Day.

-Bon Jovi

How many of you people know you’re alive?

Aspire to inspire.

"Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to."

— Jim Jarmusch

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you.

- John Irving