and this is...
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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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“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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(via philosofly)
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to the guy who yelled at me today
I’m sorry that you didn’t seem to see that construction had blocked the right hand lane even though you were in the right hand lane in a giant lifted pickup truck.
I let the person in front of you go because they had their signal on and were far enough in front of me that I didn’t have to stop to let them out. I was going with the flow of traffic. I didn’t realize that the right lane was blocked as I could not see.
When I didn’t stop to let you out, you really didn’t need to yell thank you so angrily and loudly through your open window and into mine that it made me jump and scared me almost to the point of tears. Which then lead to unstoppable crying and nearly having a panic attack because it snapped the tiny string that had been holding all of my stress and fear together, the string that even meditating in the park on a beautiful morning could not strengthen.
I hope that you figure out that the things you do have an effect and even small, angry things like that can completely alter someone else’s day. I hope you figure that out before you seriously hurt someone in a way you don’t even realize.
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Every good thing in my life came from taking chances.
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“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” — Ray Bradbury (via kari-shma) (via quote-book) -
“If I had my life to live over, I’d dare to make more mistakes next time. I’d relax; I’d limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would perhaps have more actual troubles, but I’d have fewer imaginary ones.” — Nadine Stair (via kari-shma) (via jessicachu) (via in-darkroom) (via floweryandstarry) (via lalunemacherie) -
“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” — – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
“The less routine the more life.” — Amos Bronson Alcott
