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600 days of something and counting: becoming an active participant The trouble with me isn’t so much that I feel as though I haven’t experienced much or done exciting things, it’s just that I have a tendency to let myself stumble into them instead of planning for them and arranging for them to happen. This is fine in that it creates serendipity and spontaneity…
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600 days of something and counting: 600 days... As of Monday April 23rd, 2012 I will have 600 days until my 30th birthday on Friday the 13th of 2013. Since it’s taken me nearly half an hour to write this beginning post I think it’s safe to say that I’m not great at getting things done. So, I’ve decided to set some goals for myself to accomplish…
To all the followers of this blog - come follow me as I put into motion everything that has inspired me on this one?
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“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.” Jack London
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(via iliketolive)
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“People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.” — Charles Bukowski (via creatingaquietmind)(via creatingaquietmind)
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“Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.” — Paulo Coelho (via creatingaquietmind)(via creatingaquietmind)
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(via philosofly)
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“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn’t quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.” — ~Sylvia Plath -
nearly nothing you worry about is actually important.
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“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.” — Og Mandino
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“There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life.” — Ernest Hemingway (via creatingaquietmind) -
now is all we have
