you should take on the world at least once in your life.
tre cool
from take the lead:
Pierre Dulaine: You can get what you want.
Rock: No, only some people get what they want.
Pierre Dulaine: You're right. Only those people who show up to get it.
You don't throw away a whole life just 'cause he's banged up a little.
tom smith, seabiscuit
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
Malcolm Forbes
I just don't know what to do with myself.
-- The White Stripes. And Kate Moss pole-dancing.
An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and succumbs to every stray male jackass.
-- Heinrich Boll on artists
The tender gesture says: ask me anything that can put your body to sleep, but also do not forget that I desire you----a little, lightly, without trying to seize anything right away.
-- Roland Barthes, "A Lover's Discourse"
Bohemian lips were meant to leave traces.
-- from the "Bohemian Manifesto"
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
--Anais Nin
Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.
-- Helene Cixous, "The Laugh of the Medusa"