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Do you ever feel like what you’re doing ain’t what you want

It’s just what you’ve been taught

Just what you’ve been taught

It’s gonna feel so good to let it go

Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. Their fingers, from excessive toil, are too clumsy and tremble too much for that. Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything but a machine. How can he remember well his ignorance — which his growth requires — who has so often to use his knowledge? We should feed and clothe him gratuitously sometimes, and recruit him with our cordials, before we judge of him. The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

— Henry David Thoreau

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

— Bruce Lee

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

— Peter Drucker

Once more into the fray
Into the last good fight I’ll ever know
Live and die on this day
Live and die on this day

— Ottway

Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.

— Osho (via dirtcrumbgoddess)

(Source: seriousclownin, via sophiestrand)

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You can predict what is going to happen or you can create what you want.”

“Be calm and assertive, visualize the outcome, and create what you want.”

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

— Bertrand Russell

I think I could turn and live with animals, they’re so placid and self-contain’d,

I stand and look at them long and long.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition,

They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,

They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,

Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,

Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,

Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.

— Walt Whitman

“Live your life. Do what you love and do it often.”
“Travel often; getting lost will help you find yourself.”

Neil Young - Here For You

When your summer days come tumbling down
And you find yourself alone
Then you can come back and be with me
Just close your eyes and I’ll be there
Listen to the sound
Of this old heart beating for you
Yes I’d miss you
But I never want to hold you down
You might say I’m here for you