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I want to tell you, my head is filled with things to say (George Harrison)

I’ll tell you one thing for sure: once you get to the point where you’re actually doing things for truth’s sake, then nobody can ever touch you again because you’re harmonising with a greater power.  George Harrison

Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness (Leo Tolstoy)

  Photo by Mei-Ling Mirow on Unsplash

The threshold between waking and sleeping

  ...at the time when [surrealism] broke over its founders as an inspiring dream wave, it seemed the most integral, conclusive, absolute of movements. Everything with which it came into contact was integrated. Life only seemed worth living where the threshold between waking and sleeping was worn away in everyone... Walter Benjamin 1929

There's no way around grief and loss (Johnny Cash)

Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge it all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left. John R. Cash

Life's a pretty precious and wonderful thing.

Photo by Fabio Comparelli on Unsplash   Life's a pretty precious and wonderful thing. You can't sit down and let it lap around you. You have to plunge into it; you have to dive through it and you can't save it. You can't store it up. You can't hoard it in a vault. You've got to use it. You've got to taste it. The more you use the more you have...that's the miracle of it. Kyle Samuel Chrichton

This is to have succeeded (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden path or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson