Love doesn't have a purpose. Love is purpose.
It’s like this. You have to have the nicest jeans or the coolest shoes or say the newest thing so that it catches on. You have to be attractive, you have to buy this, wear this, say this, be on his side, her side, be neutral, be normal, be unique, have white teeth, have straight teeth. You have to go to parties, be friends with everyone, trust no one, pose like you're a success, smile like that, say clever things, and put your hand on your hip because that’s how it is. And let me just say, fuck all of that.
There are the most beautiful, awesome, fantastic people out there. I promise.
It's up to YOU to find them.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today. And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
-- Time by Pink Floyd
Joy is not in things; it is in YOU.
The tigers have found me and I don't care.
[the Fox, my 'baby' girl]
Paulo Coehlo cites this as one of his 'declaration of principles'. I love it!
Each human being has his own Personal Legend to be fulfilled, and this is the reason he is in the world. The Personal Legend is manifest in his enthusiasm for what he does. The Personal Legend may be abandoned for a certain time, provided one does not forget it and returns as soon as possible.
some human beings are delicate things
some human beings are delicious and wonderous things
if you want to piss on the sun
go ahead
but leave them alone
-- Charles Bukowski