"I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils."

                           - Charlotte Brontë

Wendy: “So, your adventures are over then?”

Peter: “No, oh no, to live is an adventure.”

Own your own soul

   

 

 "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. 

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst,if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

  

"To love another person is to see the face of God."

“When faced with two choices, simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you, but because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air,

you suddenly know what you are hoping for.”

Though thou loved her as thyself,

As a self of purer clay, 

Tho' her parting dims the day,

Stealing grace from all alive,

Heartily know,

When half-gods go,

The gods arrive.

-Give All to Love, Emerson

How good is man's life, the mere living!

Oh the wild joys of living! 

The leaping from rock to rock...the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

                                                                                    -Robert Browning

(picture taken by my friend who is currently in Argentina during the show Fuerza Bruta, which, as a side note is possibly one of the coolest productions on earth next to cirque du soleil...though it is a close second)