To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows.
~ Jean Anouilh
Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
~ Alexis Carrel
On with the dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to confine.
~ Mark Twain
Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
~ William Saroyan
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
~ James F. Bymes
Life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.
~ Marjory Stoneman Douglas
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years, but the one with the richest experiences.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs.
He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
~ Philip James Bailey
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
~Anonymous
I would urge you to be as imprudent as you dare.
BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
~ Susan Sontag
There was never an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior is a drama, a comedy and a tragedy.
~ Mark Twain
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
~ Emily Dickinson
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
~ Benjamin Franklin
ill have to read through all this at some point. but here are a few quotes i doubt were posted that i like. all are from H.P. Lovecraft
Calm, lasting beauty comes only in dream, and this solace the world had
thrown away when in its worship of the real it threw away the secrets of
childhood and innocence.
I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is
expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared
with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the
universe, than to weep for him within.
I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse
than to feel.
He enjoys life -- as do all who are spared the curse of intelligence.
I have no opinions -- I believe in nothing -- but assume for the time
whatever opinion amuses me or is opposite to that of the person or
persons present.
Nothing really matters, and the only thing for a person to do is to take
the artificial and traditional values he finds around him and pretend
they are real; in order to retain that illusion of significance in life
which gives to human events their apparent motivation and semblance of
interest.
The Man of Truth has learned that Illusion is the One Reality, and that Substance is the Great Imposter.
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?
~ Henry James
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
~ Agatha Christie
Live as if you were to die tomorrow . . . .
Learn as if you were to live forever.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
To enjoy life more fully you must keep reminding yourself that life is too short for unhappiness.
~ Sol Gordon and Harold Brecher
Remember, life is not what happens to you but what you make of what happens to you. Everyone dies, but not everyone fully lives. Too many people are having "near-life experiences."
~ Anonymous
It matters not how long we live, but how.
~ Philip James Bailey
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end.
~ Ursula K. LeGuin
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world."
- Margaret Mead
I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with you eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
Da Vinci
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
John Steinbeck
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
- Winston Churchill
I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
History would be a wonderful thing if only it were true - Tolstoy
1998 ~ Barrie
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
Comments
"The reality we experience is something we make"
If you read this, and you are starting to become aware of what is really around you, then thank you for beggining to wake up.
there you are.
- brain of c
-William Dement, in Newsweek, 1959
Make peace with that and all will be well. ~The Budda
Gandhi
~ Julia Childs
Life loves the liver of it.
~ Maya Angelou
A man who dares to waste an hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.
~ Charles Darwin
Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.
~ C.S. Lewis
Life is a festival only to the wise.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
~ Jean Anouilh
Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
~ Alexis Carrel
On with the dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to confine.
~ Mark Twain
Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
~ William Saroyan
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
~ James F. Bymes
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
~ Marjory Stoneman Douglas
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years, but the one with the richest experiences.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs.
He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
~ Philip James Bailey
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
~Anonymous
I would urge you to be as imprudent as you dare.
BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
~ Susan Sontag
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
ha
--Butthead
---Gertrude Stein
Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
---Getrude Stein
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
---HL Mencken
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.
---HL Mencken
And...my personal favorite:
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
---HL Mencken
~ Dorothy Thompson
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a promise; fulfill it.
~ Mother Theresa
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
~ Sarah Bernhardt
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
~ Mark Twain
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
~ Emily Dickinson
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
"The best things in life aren't things" - anonymous
Calm, lasting beauty comes only in dream, and this solace the world had
thrown away when in its worship of the real it threw away the secrets of
childhood and innocence.
I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is
expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared
with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the
universe, than to weep for him within.
I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse
than to feel.
He enjoys life -- as do all who are spared the curse of intelligence.
I have no opinions -- I believe in nothing -- but assume for the time
whatever opinion amuses me or is opposite to that of the person or
persons present.
Nothing really matters, and the only thing for a person to do is to take
the artificial and traditional values he finds around him and pretend
they are real; in order to retain that illusion of significance in life
which gives to human events their apparent motivation and semblance of
interest.
The Man of Truth has learned that Illusion is the One Reality, and that Substance is the Great Imposter.
ok thats all for now.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?
~ Henry James
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
~ Agatha Christie
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
Mother Theresa
Learn as if you were to live forever.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
To enjoy life more fully you must keep reminding yourself that life is too short for unhappiness.
~ Sol Gordon and Harold Brecher
Remember, life is not what happens to you but what you make of what happens to you. Everyone dies, but not everyone fully lives. Too many people are having "near-life experiences."
~ Anonymous
It matters not how long we live, but how.
~ Philip James Bailey
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end.
~ Ursula K. LeGuin
THAT is a truly GREAT quote.....wise words.
thanks for posting it.
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
- Margaret Mead
Da Vinci
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
John Steinbeck
~ George Santayana
We are not born to survive. Only to live.
~ W.S. Merwin
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
~ Abraham Lincoln
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about it's width and depth.
~ H.L. Menken
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
~ Diane Ackerman
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
~ Ice Queen
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
~ Mark Twain
Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
~ Seneca
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced; live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
~ Cherokee saying
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
- martin luther king jr.
- Winston Churchill
~ Gordon B. Hinkley
The greatest act of revolution in contemporary life, is to come to every day with joy.
~ Carl Hammerschlag
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
~ Ice Queen
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo