“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” —Banksy

"We lose ourselves in the things we love. We find ourselves there, too"

"There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars." — Jack Kerouac

"For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again." — F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Your 20’s are your ‘selfish’ years. It’s a decade to immerse yourself in every single thing possible. Be selfish with your time, and all the aspects of you. Tinker with shit, travel, explore, love a lot, love a little, and never touch the ground." — Kyoko Escamilla

"For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you." — Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you will do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything." — Fr. Pedro Arrupe, S.J.

http://capecott.tumblr.com/tagged/poem

http://gabrielgadfly.com/poetry/the-lily-and-the-rug

“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.” ― Brian Andreas, Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas

“Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.” — Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea. Isak Dinesen

“It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.” ― Charles Bukowski, Pulp

The Uses of Sorrow (In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.” — Charles Bukowski

courage doesn't always roar. sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "i will try again tomorrow."

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. -Franz Kafka

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”

---Franz Kafka

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”

― Franz Kafka

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1742.Jack_Kerouac

Disturb us, Lord -Francis Drake

Disturb us, Lord, when We are too pleased with ourselves, When our dreams have come true Because we dreamed too little, When we arrived safely Because we sailed too close to the shore.

Disturb us, Lord, when With the abundance of things we possess We have lost our thirst For the waters of life; Having fallen in love with life, We have ceased to dream of eternity And in our efforts to build a new earth, We have allowed our vision Of the new Heaven to dim.

Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly, To venture on wilder seas Where storms will show Your mastery; Where losing sight of land, We shall find the stars.

We ask you to push back The horizons of our hopes; And to push back the future In strength, courage, hope, and love.

This we ask in the name of our Captain, Who is Jesus Christ.

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.” ― Sylvia Plath

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. -Maya Angelou (http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/28/maya-angelou-in-fifteen-quotes)

Traveling - It leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

DESIDERATA - http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~gongsu/desiderata_textonly.html