Doubt

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life, is akin to choosing immobility as a means of trasportation.
-Yann Martel "Life of Pi"

...Have I chosen "doubt as a philosophy of life"? With so many things, I choose to neither believe nor disbelive; or quite differently, to belive and disbelive. Have I penned myself in with doubt? How would my life be different otherwise? -D'nah

Madness

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
-Yann Martel, "Life of Pi"

Living

Existence is uncomplicated. One foot in front of the other. Eat, sleep, function. Living, truly living, with all the emotion and risk that entails, is hard work. Every risk presents the possibility of both success and failure. Every emotion has a counterbalance. Fear cannot exist without hope, nor hope without fear.

Tami Hoag - Dark Horse