Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn’t exist and never will. There is only now // Christopher Paolini

We spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds

Half of life is fucking up, the other half is dealing with it // Henry Rollins

Do it or don’t. It’s amazing how many things in life are that easy // Henry Rollins

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go // TS Eliot

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving // Lao Tzu

“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies — all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.”  // Aldous Huxley : The Doors of Perception

The brightest lightning bolt is elicited from the darkest storm // Charles Caleb Colton

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. Take a risk. Be spontaneous. The suffering that might come from a mistake in facing those fears is usually less intense and less enduring than the suffering of asking ‘what if?’.