allegory.: September 2009

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Your extraordinary mind.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea,
pretty and blue, was the earth.
I put up my thumb and shut one eye,
and my thumb blotted out the planet earth.

I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small

- Neil Armstrong

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same times, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars."

-Jack Kerouac

Photo: Cass Bird

The Edge

"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

- Hunter S. Thompson

the art of knowing

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes

Art is knowing which ones to keep.

- Scott Adams

think like a superhero

let go..

I’m going to smile and make you think I’m happy.

I’m going to laugh, so you don’t see me cry.

I’m going to let go in style, and even if it kills me-

I’m going to smile.

This is it

“Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find “tomorrow” on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday’s defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, “If I had my life to live over again.” Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”