clean water
human trafficking industry
education
awareness
child labor laws/ enforcement
even distribution of food
improved nonviolent negotiations between nations
aids treatment
moremoremore

"because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
-jason russell

"you dont have to live forever. you just have to live."

"life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all."
-helen keller

"be the author of your own adventure."

"you cannot run away from weakness, you must sometime fight it out or perish. and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?"
-robert louis stevenson

"theres something pure and infinite in you, that wants to come out of you, and can come out of no other person on this planet. thats what you've got to share, and thats as important as the fact that you're alive. we were able, at a very young age to somehow protect eachtoher so we could feel that. the world at large, careerism, money, magazines, your parents, the people at the rock club in your town, other kids, nothing is going to give you that message nessesarily. in fact, most things are going to lead you away from it, sadly, because humanity is really confused at the moment. but you wouldnt exist if the universe didnt need you. and anytime i encounter something BEAUTIFUL that came out of a human being somewhere, thats them, thats their own soul. thats just pure, whatever its physicality is, if the person can play piano, if they can't play piano, if they're tone deaf, whatever it is, if its pure, it hits you like a sledgehammer, it fills your own soul, it makes you want to cry, it makes you glad you're alive, it lets you come out of you. and thats what we need. we desparately need you."

"if you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading of do things worth the writing."

peru, panama, mexico, canada, bahamas, most of the united states.. pathetic, i know :\

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