Do not use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe, to create, to learn, to think and to grow. 

—Professor Richard Feynman

 

If all a man does is to watch from the shore,

Then he doesn't have to worry about the current.

But if affection has put us into the stream,

Then we have to agree to where the water goes.

--Robert Bly

 

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting - over and over announcing your place in the family of things.
Mary Oliver Wild Geese

"One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too

 is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. 

A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel 

affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to."

  Solzhenitsyn

*Mariah Fee (excerpt, or 'quote')

"We are paper thin. We exist on luck amid the percentages, temporarily. And that’s the best part and the worst part, the temporal factor. And there’s nothing you can do about it. You can sit on top of a mountain and meditate for decades and it’s not going to alter. You can alter yourself into acceptability but maybe that’s wrong too. Maybe we think too much. Feel more, think less.”

~ Bukowski