“But in order to keep justice from shriveling up like a beautiful orange fruit containing nothing but a bitter, dry pulp, I discovered once more at Tipasa that one must keep intact in oneself a freshness, a cool wellspring of joy, love the day that escapes injustice, and return to combat having won that light. Here I recaptured the former beauty, a young sky, and I measured my luck, realizing at last that in the worst years of our madness the memory of that sky had never left me. This was what in the end had kept me from despairing. I had always known that the ruins of Tipasa were younger than our new constructions or our bomb damage. There the world began over again every day in an ever new light. O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.”

– Albert Camus – Return to Tipasa

“But if you’re blocking me
I will soon defeat you
build a bridge above you
Or I’ll tunnel underneath you
I will eat you and excrete you and I’ll feed you to the flowers
If I need to I will go right through you and absorb your powers
I put in hour after hour let’s be crystal clear
I’ll gonna get there if it takes a day or fifty years
I finger bang my fears
I’ll fucking punch a dragon
Even with the himalayas in my way it’s gonna happen
Waiting doesn’t work, and praying may not come through
And hoping doesn’t work. So I will be the one to (work)”

– Watsky – Moral of the Story

if you’re going to try, go all the way.
otherwise, don’t even start.

if you’re going to try, go all the way.
this could mean losing
girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs
and maybe your mind.

go all the way

it could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days.
it could mean freezing on a park bench.
it could mean jail,
it could mean derision,
mockery,
isolation.

isolation is the gift,
all the others are a test of your endurance
of how much you really want to do it.
and you’ll do it
despite rejection and the worst odds
and it will be better than anything else you can imagine.

if you’re going to try,
go all the way.

there is no other feeling like that.
you will be alone with the gods
and the nights will flame with fire.

do it, do it, do it
do it

all the way … all the way

you will ride life straight to perfect laughter,
its the only good fight there is.

– Charles Bukowski

“What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.”

– Maya Angelou

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYwXCpEiqls

“Don’t pray for us
We don’t need no modern Jesus
To roll with us
The only rule we need is never
Giving up
The only faith we have is faith in us”

– Portugal. The Man – Modern Jesus

“I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of.

Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand?

The fact that you’re alive is amazing … so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.”

– Louis C.K.