persistent

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The wise is not conspicuous in their actions

Or given to much talking

When trouble arises

They are not disturbed

They produce, but do not hoard

They act, but expect no praise

They build, but do not dwell within

And because they do not dwell within,
They never depart 

Source: Michal Klajban: Wikicommons

a spoke into the wheel

“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

smile

Do not cry because it is over
Smile because it happened.
- Dr. Seuss

Romeo (2005-2020)

you smile

The truth of what is, for all of us.

Which is...

That it's all going to go away. You, you, you, you, me, this cigarette, everything into blackness, the void. And nobody's in charge. And you're left with... ungatz.

Ungatz.

Nothing.

Nothing.

That's... that's all there is.

And what do you do with that?

What do we do with that?

You smile…

the mad ones

the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.  

― Jack Kerouac 

On the Road

Flickr (cc) by Evan Balbier

"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons."

-James Thurber