Tuesday, June 22, 2004

rolling through my head

To know life in every breath - Last Samurai
Get busy living or get busy dying - Shawshank Redemption
Every man dies, not every man really lives - Braveheart

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. - Ferris Bueller's Day Off


They're not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? - - Carpe - - hear it? - - Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.


We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life? Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse." That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?
Dead Poet's Society

"Because", Morrie continued, "most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do." - Tuesdays with Morrie

Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Let us endeavour so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essentials facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
I want to live deep and suck the marrow out of life!
- Henry David Thoreau


but I have come that they might have life. More and better life than they ever dreamed of - Jesus (john 10:10 from the message)

Still rolling around the whole living v. breathing thing. Man I want to live.

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