Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

— Howard Thurman

Make it up and make it happen.

— David Allen

Though I know they've always
Told you selfishness is wrong
Yet it was for me not you
I came to write this song

— Rush

I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing him to grow. Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

— Dune (from the 1984 film)

F/8 and be there.

— Arthur "Weegee" Fellig

You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody, which is really somebody. For when you become nobody there is no tension, no pretense, no one trying to be anyone or anything. The natural state of the mind shines through unobstructed—and the natural state of the mind is pure love.

— Ram Dass

We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.

— Alan Watts

Spirit is not in the I but is between I and You.

— Martin Buber

Be present, responsive, and creative.

— Bruce Webber