barometry

“ I am changing. Less and less asleep. ”

“ I will be a tree climber.
I will not know gravity,
I will not know gravity. ”

“ The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you you’re not good enough. On occasion, some may be correct. But do not do their work for them. Seek any job; ask anyone out; pursue any goal. Don’t take it personally when they say ‘no’ — they may not be smart enough to say “yes. ”

“ No, you don’t need strength to be strong
Time to believe in what you know
Time to believe before you go ”

“ We are half-hearted creatures, fooling around with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased. ”

“ Let’s abandon this darkness…
Let’s follow this through…
Everything’s waiting…
We’ll be lit up like fire and gold
When everything’s new ”

“ To be nobody-but-yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ”