We growing wiser, or are we just growing tall?

• Damian Marley

Though there are questions as to its veracity, "a delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad". As an artist, this is the reason I'll never rush things and spend ample time on my art.

"There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived." —Anomander Rake

From Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen.

Survival is insufficient

• Emily St. John Mandel

From Frank Herbert’s Dune

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it’s a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

“Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.”

-Hunter S. Thompson

Change your perspective... and the reality changes!

That's what a daycare npc told me in Pokemon Black. Although I haven't really found much use for the quote, it has stuck with me for long.

Don't let quotes tell you what to think.

“There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.” Harry S. Truman

We have not created the heavens and the earth and everything in between except for a purpose. And the Hour is certain to come, so forgive graciously.

15:85 Quran

"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it"

And at the end:

"No one keeps death in view, no one refrains from far-reaching hopes; some men, indeed, even arrange for things that lie beyond life—huge masses of tombs and dedications of public works and gifts for their funeral-pyres and ostentatious funerals. But, in very truth, the funerals of such men ought to be conducted by the light of torches and wax tapers, as though they had lived but the tiniest span." [As if a child had died]

Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

“Anything that detracts from enjoying yourself is to be avoided.”