"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman
"Once you say that you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life." - John F. Kennedy
"What is the opposite of happiness? Sadness? No. Just as love and hate are two sides of the same coin, so are happiness and sadness. Crying out of happiness is a perfect illustration of this. The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is -- here is the clincher -- boredom. Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. When people suggest you follow your "passion" or your "bliss," I propose that they are, in fact, referring to the same singular concept: excitement." - Tim Ferris in the Four Hour Work Week
Precision instruments are designed to achieve
an idea, dimensional precision, where perfection
is impossible. There is no perfectly shaped part of
a motorcycle and never will be, but when you come as
close as these instruments take you, remarkable things
happen, and you go flying across the countryside
under a power that would be called magic if it
were not so completely rational in every way.
-Rober M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
How dull, how impossible life would be without dreams — waking dreams, I mean — the dreams that we call "castles in the air," built by the kindly hands of Hope! Were it not for the mirage of the oasis, drawing his footsteps ever onward, the weary traveler would lie down in the desert sand and die. It is the mirage of distant success, of happiness that, like the bunch of carrots fastened an inch beyond the donkey's nose, seems always just within our reach, if only we will gallop fast enough, that makes us run so eagerly along the road of Life. - Jerome K. Jerome
