quotes

“Life isn’t coming at you; life is coming from you.”

—Jason Mraz

@ Carnegie Hall
November 23, 2011

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

Sylvia Plath

quote from American Childhood (Annie Dillard):

There was joy in concentration, and the world afforded an inexhaustible wealth of projects to concentrate on. There was joy in effort, and the world resisted effort to just the right degree, and yielded to it at last. People cut Mount Rushmore into faces; they chipped here and there for years. People sl

“The hurt from getting beaten only lasts a little while, but the hurt from giving up without a fight never goes away.” – John Taylor Gatto

“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.”

-Charles Bukowski