Learn to Live

"You gotta live to learn.
You gotta crash and burn.
You gotta make some stances,
and take some chances.
You gotta live and love
and take all life has to give.
You gotta live and learn
so you can learn to live."

- Darius Rucker, "Learn to Live"

Never Be Ready

We've got our feet on the wire, talking 'bout flying
Maybe we're diving in over our heads
Scared of what I'm feeling
Staring at the ceiling here tonight

Come on lay down these arms, all our best defenses
We're taking our chances here on the run
The fear is an anchor, time is a stranger
Love isn't borrowed, we aren't promised tomorrow

We'll never be ready if we keep waiting
For the perfect time to come
Won't be steady, we'll never be ready

Where we don't know, though we can't see
Just walk on down this road with me
Won't be steady, never be ready

You're okay, you're with me here in the silence
With all of the violence crashing around
Saying we can't go, saying we don't know
This road that is narrow is the one we should follow

We'll never be ready if we keep waiting
For the perfect time to come
Won't be steady, we'll never be ready

Where we don't know, though we can't see
Just walk on down this road with me
Won't be steady, we'll never be ready

- Mat Kearney, "Never Be Ready"

Outlast

"The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that outlasts it."

~ William James

Possibilities

"The most important thing in life is to stop saying "I wish" and start saying "I will." Consider nothing impossible then treat possibilities as probabilities."

~ "The Way I See It #283", Starbucks cup

Standing Still

"It's only when movement becomes the most natural state in our lives that we can finally begin to enjoy the motion. And it's only when standing still becomes impossible that we can finally embrace the kinds of changes that are inevitable in our lives."

~From "Running for Mortals"

Great Things

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

-Vincent Van Gogh

Fire

You can brave decisions
Before you crumble up inside
Spend your time asking everyone else's permission
Then run away and hide
Or you can sit on chimneys
Put some fire up your ass
No need to know what you're doing or waiting for

~Damien Rice, "Coconut Skins"

Are You Gonna?

Are you gonna live your life wonderin’ standing in the back lookin’ around?
Are you gonna waste your time thinkin' how you’ve grown up or how you missed out?
Things are never gonna be the way you want.
Where's it gonna get you acting serious?
Things are never gonna be quite what you want.
Or even at 25, you gotta start sometime.
I’m on my feet, I’m on the floor, I’m good to go.
Now all I need is just to hear a song I know.
I wanna always feel like part of this was mine.
I wanna fall in love tonight.

~Jimmy Eat World, Praise Chorus

Might Have Been

"It's never too late to be who you might have been."

-George Eliot