"But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything."
Alan Watts (1915-1973)

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform."
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)

“I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.” ― Jack Kerouac
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac
March 12, 1922 - October 21, 1969

📷: Robert Frank

"It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world" -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it."
James Baldwin (1924-1987)