If there's one thing i've learned, it's this:
no matter how long you live, no matter how much you see, or how much you experience, you'll never come close to knowing it all. You'll never come close to being able to undertand everything, and in the end, all that matter's is that you've soaked up as much as humanly possible in the short time we're given.
I guess I figured this out from talking to people my age, and people 5, 10, 20 years older than me, and realizing that few of them are any closer to figuring out what's going on than I am, which just makes life all the more exciting.
(oh right, i'm 19)
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What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways
Your toughest competitor lives in your head. Some days his name is fear, or pain, or gravity. Stomp his ass.
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