Don’t do it. Don’t go to that job you hate. Do something you love today. Ride a roller coaster. Swim in the ocean naked. Go to the airport and get on the next flight to anywhere just for the fun of it. Maybe stop a spinning globe with your finger and then plan a trip to that very spot; even if it’s in the middle of the ocean you can go by boat. Eat some type of ethnic food you've never even heard of. Stop a stranger and ask her to explain her greatest fears and her secret hopes and aspirations in detail and then tell her you care because she is a human being. Sit down on the sidewalk and make pictures with colorful chalk. Close your eyes and try to see the world with your nose — allow smells to be your vision. Catch up on your sleep. Call an old friend you haven’t seen in years. Roll up your pant legs and walk into the sea. See a foreign film. Feed squirrels. Do anything! Something! Because you start a revolution one decision at a time, with each breath you take. Just don’t go back to that miserable place you go every day. Show me it’s possible to be an adult and also be happy. Please. This is a free country. You don’t have to keep doing this if you don’t want to. You can do anything you want. Be anyone you want.
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Liv... MATTHEW ARNOLD On one she smiles, and he was blest;
She smiles elsewhere--we make a din!
But 'twas not love w... MATTHEW ARNOLD A Rechabite poor Will must live,
And drink of Adam's ale. MATTHEW PRIOR The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, ro... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind. MATTHEW PRIOR We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to bless... MATTHEW SIMPSON For hope is but the dream of those that wake. -Matthew Prior. MATTHEW PRIOR Experience join'd with common sense,
To mortals is a providence. MATTHEW GREEN Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives:
She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives:
Lay... MATTHEW PRIOR Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget... MATTHEW LEWIS We sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have -- Power. MATTHEW BOULTON There are two types of teachers in the world: there are those who play school and teachers that teac... MATTHEW DICKS Dare to Differ MATTHEW GOLDFINGER Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And ... MATTHEW SCULLY Looking for and enjoying beauty is a way to nourish the soul. the universe is in the habit of making... MATTHEW FOX In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. MATTHEW PRIOR And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say. MATTHEW PRIOR They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think. MATTHEW PRIOR Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician. MATTHEW PRIOR To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: S... MATTHEW PRIOR Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the etern... MATTHEW ARNOLD Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake. MATTHEW PRIOR Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way. MATTHEW PRIOR One lesson we can learn from pre-industrial peoples is the power of storytelling. I am struck by how... MATTHEW FOX Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song? MATTHEW PRIOR With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden a... MATTHEW ARNOLD The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. MATTHEW ARNOLD Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise. MATTHEW PRIOR With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair. MATTHEW ARNOLD