“Dare to look foolish. The real fools are those who never attempt anything. Dare to make mistakes. They are the best teachers you will ever know. Dare to take action. There’s a risk you may fail. Yet if you take no action failure is a certainty. Dare to be fully alive. Dare to speak your mind. Dare to enjoy the beauty of the world. Dare to make a difference. Dare to love. Dare to be the person you know you can be. Dare to expect the best, with your words and actions. You’ll usually get it. Dare to do what is right rather than what is convenient or expedient. It will truly make a difference in the way you see yourself, and the way others see you. You’re here, with this magnificent day available to you. Dare to make it the best you can.”

“We Breathe. We Pulse. We Regenerate. Our hearts beat. Our minds create. Our souls ingest. Thirty-seven seconds, well used, is a lifetime.”

“It turns out you can make a random observation sound vaguely insightful by prepending it with ‘it turns out’.” ~Merlin Mann

“Listen, there’s a hell of a good universe next door, let’s go.” ~E. E. Cummings

“Everyone needs to be who they are in every way all the time or it just hurts.”

“All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.” ~Albert Einstein

“I sat in a restaurant in New York, for example, and I looked out at the buildings and I began to think, you know, about how much the radius of the Hiroshima bomb damage was and so forth… How far from here was 34th street?… All those buildings, all smashed — and so on. And I would see people building a bridge, or they’d be making a new road, and I thought, they’re crazy, they just don’t understand, they don’t understand. Why are they making new things? It’s so useless.” ~Richard Feynman after working on the atom bomb

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.” ~Kurt Vonnegut

“Maybe somewhere in all of this there’s a reason. Maybe somewhere in all of this there’s a why. Maybe somewhere there’s that thing that lets you tie it all up with a neat bow and bury it in the backyard. But nothing, not getting angry, not prayers, and not tears, nothing can make something that happened unhappen.” ~The United States of Leland

“A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous.” ~Ingrid Bergmen