Reminders for myself

"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”

—Charles Bukowski

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.

You will ride life straight to perfect laughter.

It's the only good fight there is.

— Charles Bukowski, Factotum

"You can’t find peace by avoiding life."

— Virginia Woolf

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you