2024-11-08 Don’t let them win

your life is your life

don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.

be on the watch.

— Charles Bukowski, “The Laughing Heart”

And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship — be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles — is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.

— David Foster Wallace, “This Is Water”

Don’t let the system get you down

— Mattafix, “Big City Life”

of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me

— Walt Whitman, “O Me! O Life!”

The race is long and, in the end, it’s only with yourself.

— Mary Schmich, “Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young”

and the day goes on

hold on

HOLD ON

stay strong

and the day goes on.

— Bill Wurtz, “and the day goes on”