Do yourself a favor. Before it’s too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
‘And now,’ cried Max, ‘let the wild rumpus start!’

Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

RIP

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
Ovid
You’re a human being, you live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damn red velvet cupcake.
Emma Stone
I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money – I think that can be a burden – I’m greedy for an exciting life. I want it to be exciting all the time, and I get it, actually. On the other hand, I can find excitement, I admit, in raindrops falling on a puddle and a lot of people wouldn’t. I intend to have it exciting until the day I fall over.
David Hockney (via nextness)

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As soon as you’re born you start dying /
So you might as well have a good time /
Cake, Sheep Go to Heaven
Fate loves the fearless.
James Russell Lowell
You’ve been halfway living your life for too long. When it’s time to die, go ahead and die, and when it’s time to live, live. Don’t sort-of-maybe live, but live like you’re going all out, like you’re not afraid.
Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
Never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It’s probably worth it.
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Beach
There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self conscience, so apparently moral…But I won’t have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous…more extravagant and bright. We are…raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus.
Annie Dillard
Life responds when we risk.
Rodney Smith
You have four years to be irresponsible here. Relax. Work is for people with jobs. You’ll never remember class time, but you’ll remember time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So, stay out late. Go out on a Tuesday with your friends when you have a paper due Wednesday. Spend money you don’t have. Drink ‘til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does…
Tom Petty
it was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
 Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
Japanese Proverb
I often use the hypothetical out-of-control ice-cream truck. What would happen if you were walking across the street and were suddenly hit by a careening Mister Softee truck? As you lie there, in your last few moments of consciousness, what kind of final regrets flash through your mind? ‘I should have had a last cigarette!’ might be one. Or, ‘I should have dropped acid with everybody else back in ‘74!’ Maybe: ‘I should have done that hostess after all!’ Something along the lines of: ‘I should have had more fun in my life! I should have relaxed a little more, enjoyed myself a little more..’That was never my problem. When they’re yanking a fender out my chest cavity, I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of a sad list of people hurt, people let down, assets wasted and advantages squandered.
Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly