a relationship like this!

— William Martin

“Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.”

task of a leader

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive

her hair glows!

~May Sarton

"I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love."

Sometimes You Meet Someone

Sometimes you meet someone, and it’s so clear that the two of you, on some level belong together. As lovers, or as friends, or as family, or as something entirely different. You just work, whether you understand one another or you’re in love or you’re partners in crime. You meet these people throughout your life, out of nowhere, under the strangest circumstances, and they help you feel alive. I don’t know if that makes me believe in coincidence, or fate, or sheer blind luck, but it definitely makes me believe in something.

~ Bette Davis

"I work to stay alive." 

— Hafiz

“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.”

a kiss can trip the decision between staying alive and drifting away

— c.c.

“what doesn’t kill you
leaves scars
ruins your lungs
dries out all your tears
leaves you lying awake at 4 in the morning
wishing you weren’t alive”

You don’t get presents on your birthday because you were born, you get presents as rewards for still being alive.

Masanobu Fukuoka

“Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings by living, but people work like crazy, thinking that they have to in order to stay alive. The bigger the job, the greater the challenge, the more wonderful they think it is. It would be good to give up that way of thinking and live an easy, comfortable life with plenty of free time. I think that the way animals live in the tropics, stepping outside in the morning and evening to see if there is something to eat, and taking a long nap in the afternoon, must be a wonderful life. For human beings, a life of such simplicity would be possible if one worked to produce directly his daily necessities. In such a life, work is not work as people generally think of it, but simply doing what needs to be done.”

Masanobu Fukuoka

i wish i was here.

i love this so much. the freshness and how alive you feel when you escape to breathe out of the ocean. i wish i was here.

Don’t ask what the world needs.

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

— William S. Burroughs

“Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.”

— Karen Marie Moning

Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything. They make you feel so alive that you’d follow them straight into hell, just to keep getting your fix.

Bruce Lee

“I‘m not alive for me is not alive for you. Too you.”

That's what people do,

....That's what people do, they stay alive for each other. That's what makes us strong, that's what makes us human~

-H. Thurman

Don't ask what the world needs. 
Ask what makes you come alive and go for it. 
Because what the world needs is people come alive. 

— Eleanor Joan Ong

“I think it’s in saving and helping others that I save myself by reminding myself I’m still alive.”