July 26, 2012

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  If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done.

  

  How do you write about feathers? The magic of dreamcatchers? The art of dreaming? How do you write about nightmares that haunt you? Ghosts from your past? Clouds in the sky? The swirls of smoke from a cigarette? The blood that rushes thought you? Your heart beating? I want to tell you about my demons. The thoughts that lurk in the back of my mind. The things I see in the shadows. My innermost wishes. My vices, my faults. Everything that makes me who I am.

  

  Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself; I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.




  

  I want something random, indescribable, beautiful, unexpected. I want to be caught off guard, and swept impossibly too high off my feet.

  

  My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.

  

  Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

  

  Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

  

  Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

  

  Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain. And most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

  

  A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.

  

  Sometimes you just have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down.

  

  What they say is, life goes on, and that is mostly true. The mail is delivered and the Christmas lights go up and the ladders get put away and you open yet another box of cereal. In time, the volume of my feelings would be turned down in gentle increments to a near quiet, and yet the record would still spin, always spin.

  

  You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

  

  We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.

  

  Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.

  

  I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.

  

  The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

  

  Let’s complain about how much life sucks. But how much of it is actually bad? Sure, the guy of our dreams may have broken our hearts, but what about the millions of other people who have a broken life. They didn’t ask for any of this. We did. We allowed ourselves to trust the guy that everyone else was warning us about. We let him control our emotions. The other people didn’t ask for their lives to be ruined. But look at us anyways. We’re complaining and whining about a life that’s pretty damn great. We can get up on our feet and move forward. Where are the others going?

  

  Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

  

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