1 Life 1 Chance

Running

“When you’re running… there’s a little person that talks to you and that little person says, ‘Oh, I’m tired. My lung’s about to pop. Oh, I’m so hurt; I’m so tired. There’s no way I can possibly continue.’ And you want to quit, right? That person… If you learn how to defeat that person when you’re running, you will learn how to not quit when things get hard in your life.”

Reading

“Reading… there have been millions and billions and billions and gazillions of people that have lived before all of us. There’s no new problem you could have - with your parents, with school, with a bully, with anything. There’s no problem you can have that someone hasn’t already solved and wrote about it in a book."

- Will Smith

Life is a mystery; the more you know it, the more beautiful it is. A moment comes when suddenly you start living it, you start flowing with it. An orgasmic relationship evolves between you and life, but you cannot figure out what it is. That's the beauty of it, that's its infinite depth.

- Osho

In 100 years from now
Your bank balance will be irrelevant
And so will be your insurances, your policies, your pension
Your disagreements, your portfolio, the colour of your hair
In 100 years from now
Any acrimony will have died with your final words
And all artificial life securities
Will have gone to the source of their arising
cashed in or paid off
Only that which money couldn’t buy
Your values, your dreams, the sound of your beliefs
Invested love and kindness
An array of stored memories and smiles
Could have changed the world
You once occupied
Rendering you immortal
Depending on what you sowed

- Kirsten