Everything on

Everything on heaven and earth, all the minutes before this moment... have prepared you for today. Use all that you know to make it perfect. It is the sum total of your life.

~Zen to Zany

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The aim of life

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

If you don't stand

If you don't stand for something,
you will fall for anything.

~Wise Man, Sucker Punch

I want

I want to learn how to purr. Abandon myself, have mistresses in maidenhair fern, own no tomorrow nor yesterday: a blank shimmering space forward and back. I want to think with my belly. I want to name all the stars animals flowers birds rocks in order to forget them, start over again. I want to wear the seasons, harlequin, become ancient and etched by weather. I want to be snow pulse, ruminating ungulate, pebble at the bottom of the abyss, candle burning darkness rather than flame. I want to peer at things shameless, observe the unfastening, that stripping of shape by dusk. I want to sit in the meadow a rotten stump pungent with slimemold, home for pupae and grubs, concentric rings collapsing into the passacaglia of time. I want to crawl inside someone and hibernate one entire night with no clocks to wake me, thighs fragrant loam. I want to melt. I want to swim naked with an otter. I want to turn inside out, exchange nuclei with the Sun. Toward the mythic kingdom of summer I want to make blind motion, using my ribs as a raft, following the spiders as they set sail on their tasseled shining silk. Sometimes even a single feather’s enough to fly."

-Robert Maclean

We have a few rules

We have a few rules here. Nobody panics. There’s no judgment. You park your judgment at the door. Nobody dies. And — enjoy every moment. What did I miss? Drink chocolate milk. We just have fun. There’s a ton of laughter in this house. A ton of love in this house. There’s a ton of nobility in this house.

~Charlie Sheen

Stay off the crack

"Stay off the crack.
Drink a chocolate milk."

~Charlie Sheen

This is what you shall do

“This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body…”

– Walt Whitman

Often

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards:
they try to have more things, or more money,
in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier.
The way it actually works is the reverse.
You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do,
in order to have what you want.

~ Margaret Young

I still think

"I still think All You Need is Love,
but I don't think that just saying it is gonna do it."

- John Lennon

I can't judge

I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.

~Charles Manson

Borrowing

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

~Doris Lessing

He who will not

He who will not apply himself to business, eventually discovers that he means to get his bread by cheating, stealing, or begging, or else is wholly void of reason.

~Ischomachus

Better

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

~Jean de la Fontaine

As for begging

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.

~Oscar Wilde

Never

Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn.

~Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Children today

Children today are tyrants.
They contradict thier parents,
gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

~Socrates (Greek philosopher, 470-399 B.C.)

The moment you have

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

A man who is

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

It's true

It's true - I'm a habitual mendicant, but I pay my debts, not because I'm honest, but because I dislike intensely being obliged to another man.

~Riverworld, Samuel Clemmons

Success

Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.

~Willie Sutton