Live Out Loud

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson~

"To be yourself in a world which is doing its best, night & day, to make you somebody else - means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight, and never stop fighting."
~E.E. Cummings~

The worst thing is to look as if you're trying too hard. It's better to think, 'Who cares?'.



I'd rather live my life knowing I messed up a few times than wishing I'd been more [crazy].

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life; living was so dear. Nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quit necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life." ~Henry David Thoreau