‎"I want to be left alone. I want to sit in the grass. I want to ride
my horse. I want to lay a woman naked in the grass on the
mountainside. I want to think. I want to pray. I want to sleep. I want
to look at the stars. I want what I want. I want to get and prepare my
own food, with my own hands, and live that way. I want to roll my own.
I want to smoke some deer meat and pack it in my saddlebag, and go
away over the bluff. I want to read books. I want to write books. I’ll
write books in the woods. Thoreau was was right; Jesus was right. It’s
all wrong and I denounce it and it can all go to hell. I don’t believe
in this society, but I believe in man, like Mann. So roll your own
bones, I say." - - Jack Kerouac

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Questionnarie by Wendell Berry

1. How much poison are you willing to eat for the success of the free market and global trade?  Please name your preferred poisons.
2. For the sake of goodness, how much evil are you willing to do? Fill in the following blanks with the names of your favorite evils and acts of hatred.
3. What sacrifices are you prepared to make for culture and civilization? Please list the monuments, shrines, and works of art you would most willingly destroy.
4. In the name of patriotism and the flag, how much of our beloved land are you willing to desecrate? List in the following spaces the mountains, rivers, towns, farms you could most readily do without.
5. State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes, the energy sources, the kinds of security, for which you would kill a child. Name, please, the children whom you would be willing to kill.

Reprinted with permission. Published by Counterpoint ©2009 by Wendell Berry.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything -- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure -- these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. - Steve Jobs

There's a story here somewhere:

Boston Red Sox slugger Ted Williams missed almost five full baseball seasons (1943, 1944, 1945, 1952 and 1953) fighting as a fighter pilot in World War II and the Korean War and still managed to hit 521 home runs. This is pretty mind blowing in the context of today's pampered diva athletes like Lebron James. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted...

http://www.baseball-reference.co...

"Draw a crazy picture, 
Write a nutty poem, 
Sing a mumble-gumble song, 
Whistle through your comb. 
Do a loony-goony dance 
'Cross the kitchen floor, 
Put something silly in the world 
That ain't been there before." 
— Shel Silverstein