Post 50: The problem with drinking

“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.” 
― Charles Bukowski, Women

Post 49: beware the preachers

A beautiful poem by  Charles Bukowski


“there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average 
human being to supply any given army on any given day 

and the best at murder are those who preach against it 
and the best at hate are those who preach love 
and the best at war finally are those who preach peace 

those who preach god, need god 
those who preach peace do not have peace 
those who preach peace do not have love 

beware the preachers 
beware the knowers 
beware those who are always reading books 
beware those who either detest poverty 
or are proud of it 
beware those quick to praise 
for they need praise in return 
beware those who are quick to censor 
they are afraid of what they do not know 
beware those who seek constant crowds for 
they are nothing alone 
beware the average man the average woman 
beware their love, their love is average 
seeks average 

but there is genius in their hatred 
there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you 
to kill anybody 
not wanting solitude 
not understanding solitude 
they will attempt to destroy anything 
that differs from their own 
not being able to create art 
they will not understand art 
they will consider their failure as creators 
only as a failure of the world 
not being able to love fully 
they will believe your love incomplete 
and then they will hate you 
and their hatred will be perfect 

like a shining diamond 
like a knife 
like a mountain 
like a tiger 
like hemlock 

their finest art” 
― Charles Bukowski

Post 48: I am a mermaid!

"I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living."
— Anaïs Nin

Post 47: Life

Home-less-ness, borrowed rooms and love, wanderlust and empty roads, toast to a new life & a tear for the old, in the end.. Cheers to Life!

Post 46: Memory

"Memory is a tenuous thing. . . .

flickering glimpses, blue
and white, like ancient,
decomposing 16mm film.
Happiness escapes
me there, where faces
are vague and yesterday
seems to come tied
up in ribbons of pain.

Happiness? I look for it intead
in today, where memory
is something I can still
touch, still rely on.
I find it in the smiles
of new friends, the hope
blossoming inside.

My happiest memories
have no place in the
past; they are those
I have yet to create."
— Ellen Hopkins (Impulse (Impulse, #1))

Post 45: Rincewind

"He'd never asked for an exciting life. What he really liked, what he sought on every occasion, was boredom. The trouble was that boredom tended to explode in your face. Just when he thought he'd found it he'd be suddenly involved in what he supposed other people - thoughtless, feckless people - would call an adventure. And he'd be forced to visit many strange lands and meet exotic and colourful people, although not for very long because usually he'd be running. He'd seen the creation of the universe, although not from a good seat, and had visited Hell and the afterlife. He'd been captured, imprisoned, rescued, lost and marooned. Sometimes it had all happened on the same day."

Post 44: Everything happens for a reason

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." 

                                                                            — Marilyn Monroe

Post 43: Twice

Post 42: On being a traveler

"The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see." 

                                                                   — G.K. Chesterton

Post 41: What makes a summer!

“Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its own, unless one is a farmer with a professional concern for the weather. Circumstances have not allowed me to make a good summer for myself this year…My summer has been overcast by my own heaviness of spirit. I have not had any adventures, and adventures are what make a summer.” 

-- Robertson Davies, “Three Worlds, Three Summers

Post 40: Living it up!

Post 38:A Moral Illumination

“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you the knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.” 

Elizabeth Hardwick

Post 37: You are Lucky!

Post 36: The Greatest Discovery

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”

- Oprah Winfrey

Post 35: Rainy Streets

tell me lover, are you lonely? (clipped to polyvore.com)

Post 34: Finally August

"August is a time of love
Where emotions that have been harboring through june
Finally burst through the seams
Oblivious to the goodbyes
Lurking right beyond the bend
August is a time of forgotten promises
Of the mislead see you later
So often mumbled from lovers lips
- Meka Boyle"

Post 33: Finding Magic in Nature!

"Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."

Post 32: Slow Dancing in a Burning Room

We're going down,
And you can see it too.
We're going down,
And you know that we're doomed.
My dear,
We're slow dancing in a burning room.
- John Mayer

Post 31: The Heart of Life

""You know it's nothing new. Bad news never had good timing. Then the circle of your friends will defend the silver lining. Pain throws your heart to the ground, love turns the whole thing around. No, it won't all go the way it should, but I know the heart of life is good." 

                                                       — John Mayer"

Post 30: I like Nonsense!

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.”

Post 29: Oh the heart that has truly loved never forgets

Believe me if all those endearing young charms,
Which I gaze on so fondly today,
Were to change by tomorrow and fleet in my arms,
Like fairy gifts fading away!
Thou wouldst still be adored, as this moment thou art,
Let thy loveliness fade as it will
And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart
Would entwine itself verdantly still.
It is not while beauty and youth are thine own,
And thy cheeks unprofaned by a tear,
That the fervor and faith of a soul may be known,
To which time will but make thee more dear!
Oh the heart that has truly loved never forgets,
But as truly loves on to the close,
As the sunflower turns to her god when he sets
The same look which she turned when he rose!
Thomas Moore

Post 28: The secret of creativity

"The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." ~ Albert Einstein ~

Post 27: Light and Darkness

"However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light."

Post 26: Be who you are

""Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." 
— Dr. Seuss

Post 25: It's Them that do the bad things.

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

Post 24: For all the creative geniuses out there!

"Calvin: You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
Hobbes: What mood is that?
Calvin: Last-minute panic."
— Bill Watterson

Post 23: Books

"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them." 

                                                                            — Mark Twain

Post 22: I want to know if you can be alone with yourself

"It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. 
It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive. 
It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it. 
I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human. 
It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithlessand therefore trustworthy. 
I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence. 
I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!” 
It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children. 
It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back. 
It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away. 
I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments." 
— Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Post 21: Money is like love

"Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man." - Kahlil Gibran

Post 20: Don't hide the Madness

"Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening." 

                                                     — Allen Ginsberg

Post 19: Harry Potter!

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.  ~J.K. Rowling,Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1999, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore

Post 18: The Power of One

"The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself, ofen well beyond any latent ability you may have previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, the body is simply the means it uses to run faster or longer, jump higher, shoot straighter, kick better, swim harder, hit further, or box better." 

— Bryce Courtenay 

Post 17: Freedom

‎"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first." 

                                                                   — Jim Morrison

Post 16: Make it Simple!

"As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway." 

                               — Bill Watterson (The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes)

Post 15: Memories

"When all things are gone as all things will go, these are all we shall have... the fleeting sounds, colors and scents evoking emotions so familiar and yet unknown."

Post 14: The Ideal Life

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." 

                                                                    — Mark Twain

Post 13: The Road Less Traveled

"I shall be telling this with a sigh 

Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."

Post 12: Life will break you

"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could." 

                                                    — Louise Erdrich (The Painted Drum)

Post 11: The wages of sin

"The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays." 

                                                           — Terry Pratchett (Witches Abroad)

The 10th Pratchett Quote To Cure Bad Days!

"If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life." 

                                                                — Terry Pratchett (Guards! Guards!)

The 9th from Pratchett about Travel and Change

"Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving." 

                                                                         — Terry Pratchett (A Hat Full of Sky) 

The 8th for a Week Dedicated to the Genius of Terry Pratchett

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.

                                          Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"

The 7th for All Those Who Love Life and Love It Till the Very End.

"To love life, to love it even 

when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again." — Ellen Bass

The Sixth to Help Us Keep Our Happiness!

"Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it." 

                                                                        — Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)

The Fifth for those Who Live with Integrity

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out  how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweatand blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails atleast fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. 
-Theodore Roosevelt

The Fourth to Inspire a Little More Living!

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." 

                                                                      — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The third for all those who love life!

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited." 

                                                                             — Sylvia Plath

The Second: For those who love reading Children Books

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children." 

                                                                                  — Madeleine L'Engle

The First from Literature

"Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences." 

                                                                   — Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)