• "Finish each day and be done with it." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • "Leave people better than you found them." ― Marvin J. Ashton
  • "No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen." ― Alan Watts
  • "Stop saying sorry. Say thank you instead. When you say, “sorry for being a jerk” the other person is forced to either call you a jerk or say it wasnt a big deal. Instead, say “thank you for being so patient with me” so the other person has a reason to say they love you."
  • "To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; lea...
jan 11 2016 ∞
feb 26 2019 +
  • To live in a small house in the middle of the woods and the fields with a dog, cats, guinea pigs, hens and goats.
  • To live in a big old wooden house, like an old school or something, with high windows and spacious rooms left unheated during the winter.
  • To have my own vegetable & herb garden.
  • To be as self-sufficient as possible.
  • To have a part-time job that I enjoy and make enough money from.
  • To be a skilled artist with my own studio.
  • To be able to survive in the wild.
  • To meet a few more people I feel a real connection with.
  • To have a warm, caring friendship with a woman.
  • To need less sleep and remember more of my dreams.
  • To never, ever hurt the people I love.
jan 11 2016 ∞
jan 11 2016 +
  • "I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news." — John Muir
  • "There was clearly felt the presence of a force not bound to be kind to man. It was a place for heathenism and superstitious rites, to be inhabited by men nearer of kin to the rocks and to wild animals than we." — Henry David Thoreau
  • "Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night." — Sarah Williams
  • "From my rotting body, flowers shall grow, and I am in them, and that is eternity." — Edvard Munch
  • "Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, ...
jun 20 2016 ∞
jun 21 2017 +