You have to go the way your blood beats

 

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all. ~James Baldwin

Art by Margaret C. Cook from a 1913 edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. 

- the experience of love is our most primal confrontation with the illusion of freedom. ~Maria Popova