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“When you don't know where you're going, you drive on the highway.”
― Roger Hedden, Bodies, Rest and Motion.

“It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing so you bring everything to the realm of possibility.”― Albert Einstein

''In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.'' - Albert Camus

“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.'' = F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.”
― Tom Robbins, Wild Ducks Flying Backward

“Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it’s something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup”
― Gertrude Stein, Selected Writings

“Every creative act involves a leap into the void. The leap has to occur at the right moment and yet the time for the leap is never prescribed. In the midst of a leap, there are no guarantees. To leap can often cause acute embarrassment. Embarrassment is a partner in the creative act—a key collaborator.”
― Anne Bogart, A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre

“The old summer's-end melancholy nips at my heels. There's no school to go back to; no detail of my life will change come the onset of September; yet still, I feel the old trepidation.”
― Sara Baume, A Line Made by Walking

"In fairness to alcohol I've also done a lot of dumb shit while completely sober."
--Seen on the side of a hippie van.

“One might say that there is an "ethics barrier " a speed above which ethics can no longer exist. After that point the only remaining goal is to survive the immediate moment.”
― Pekka Himanen, The Hacker Ethic: A Radical Approach to the Philosophy of Business