regenerate

“…nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.”
- Wikipedia article on Wabi-sabi

“17. Life is bittersweet, and bittersweetness is greatly to be preferred to pure sweetness.
In the classic iconography of Heaven, everyone is 33 years old, everyone looks the same, and everything is oddly dead, like a plastic flower on a grave. In real life, [...]

“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.”
- Robert A. Heinlein
“The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.”
- Richard Dawkins
“For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.”
- Carl Sagan
(Thanks to @SaganSchools for these wonderful quotes)

“The right idea has the power to overcome any challenge. We can always find that idea.”
- Ray Kurzweil

“If you love the truths that you find in your soul, do not abandon them because someone outside of your soul does not agree with them or ridicules or questions them. You are not saying that your truth is THE truth. You are saying that it is YOUR truth.
There is no such thing as THE [...]

“We keep on climbing
But we never find the top
It’s all downhill from here.”
- The Evens, ‘Shelter Two’

“I will stop living life for a future happiness that does not & may never exist. I will live for now & stop wasting my time. Every moment I live can be as beautiful as a fantasy. Every second of life is precious. I vow to stop wasting my time on these dreams that turn [...]

Some excerpts from a most excellent article by Osho that I read recently (which you can read in full here):
“Anything can be creative — you bring that quality to the activity. Activity itself is neither creative nor uncreative. You can paint in an uncreative way. You can sing in an uncreative way. You can clean [...]

“I wish we could get our act together
Make some sense of present tense, alright
Take our time with what we find and feel it
Don’t you know there’s some place else that we can go
A billion trees to climb”
- Stephen Malkmus, ‘Us’

There’s no common goal
There’s no moral action
There’s no modern age
From which to run away
- Stephen Malkmus, ‘We Can’t Help You’
Been listening to a lot of Stephen Malkmus’ solo work lately. It’s quite brilliant.

“If you want to freely live or die, go or stay, to take off or put on your clothes, then right now recognize the person who is listening to this discourse. That one is without form, without characteristics, without root, without source, and without any dwelling place, yet is brisk and lively. As for all [...]