You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity--no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.
~ Stanley Kubrick
“We inherited the destruction and its consequences. In modern life the world belongs to the stupid, the insensitive and the disturbed. The right to live and triumph is today earned with the same qualifications one requires to be interned in a madhouse: amorality, hypomania and an incapacity for thought.”
— Fernando Pessoa
Willie Nelson's Tips to Living a Long Life:
1. I try to eat pretty sensible.
2. Sometimes I’ll get up and shave, and sometimes I won’t.
3. Shut up.
4. Smoke every day.
5. Have a good garden full of vegetables and maybe a freezer full of some good meat.
6. Worrying will make you sick. If you can’t do anything about it, why the hell worry about it?
7. I see the funny side first.
8. Don’t be an asshole. Don’t be an asshole. Don’t be a goddamn asshole.
9. If you’re thinking negative about anything... erase that.
10. Keep your legs crossed, your nose clean, and stay out of trees.
11. We’re all going to die. There’s not a lot we can do about it. If you hear of anything, let me know.
📸: Pamela Springsteen
“So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.”
– Jack Kerouac
«Vive de tal forma que al mirar atrás no lamentes haber desperdiciado la existencia. Vive sin lamentar las cosas que has hecho ni desees haber actuado de otra manera. Vive con sinceridad y plenamente. Vive.»
"La rueda de la vida", Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
📷Robert Frank
@EnriqeFrias Acto seguido, me inclino ante ti, Reina de todas las almas,en este mi último suspiro lleno de paz y orgulloso de la vida que dejó,me voy feliz contigo regocijado por las caricias de la eternidad.
“It is the hour to be drunken! To escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.”
—Charles Baudelaire