Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau

Not loving and not loving well are the same thing.

Never apologize for having high standards because people who really want to be in your life will rise up to meet them.
Anonymous

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet, and the wind longs to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran

And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin

We hear this time and time again, but the blunt narration finally made me pause and reconsider where my life is going. What WOULD I be doing if money were no object?

Life doesn’t happen to you, it happens because of you – it’s what you choose to think, do, and create in each moment.

Rather, they changed because they were embedded in social groups that made change easier… When people join groups where change seems possible, the potential for that change to occur becomes more real.

You can manufacture an excuse that’s socially acceptable, such as having too much work or being sick, but if you really wanted to deliver you’d figure out a way to make it happen.
What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 - Tina Seelig

Ever notice how ‘What the hell’ is always the right answer?
Marilyn Monroe

Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.
Alan Keightley

If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate.

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.
Martha Stewart

Noah Cover of “Sexy and I Know It” by LMFAO (by only1noah)

Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s troubles; it takes away today’s peace.

Of course, anger can always be justified. But then, so can forgiveness. Just depends on how much more you want from the adventure. -The Universe

WHEN YOU GO TO THE WILDFLOWER CENTER IN SPRINGTIME

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Or when you go to Sno-Beach

Everything is optional, and every option holds a promise, and in every promise there’s a plan for the “best of your life.”

So, whatever you chose, or may yet choose, celebrate it.

To the conga line, “HEY!” -
The Universe

Even not choosing, Tram-Anh, is choosing, and this too deserves celebrating… “HEY!”

We often accept the love we think we deserve.

One of the reasons why most of us think of ourselves as talented, friendly, wise and fair-minded is that these words are the lexical equivalents of a Necker cube, and the human mind naturally exploits each word’s ambiguity for its own gratification.

No one can have better timing than Kristen Wiig. Kalle is cray cray!

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret and disappointment.
Jim Rohn

So I’m going to make this my new hobby. Kristin Chenoweth Gets Dance Dared on Ellen.

Don’t have a fallback, because you’ll fall back on it.
Daria Musk

Ahahaha. Embrace! Oi Gioi Oi - Hanoi Sessions Featuring EP

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
Randy Gardner

I can be changed by what happened to me, but I refuse to be reduced to it.
Maya Angelou

The video for A Day Without Dignity, a counter-campaign to TOMS’ One Day Without Shoes

A Filipino traffic enforcer proving that you can spread energy and joy in virtually any job. It really did keep me cheesing for a few minutes.