Quotes to live by...

What are some quotes you find that help shape your daily life.. or quotes you look to for inspiration.. or quotes you just often find yourself reciting.....


"Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday"

"If you think you're free, there's no escape possible." - Ram Dass

"Freedom isn't free.. it costs a buck o five"

"It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control." - Ram Dass

"speak softly and carry a big stick"

 

Be Here Now

"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans"

 

the one in my sig is the one that got imprinted in my memory while i was in jail.

 

Sit back and groove on a rainy day. - Jimi Hendrix

 

"whatever comes up come out.. we don't put our hand over our mouth"

"...i was just thinking out loud"

"happy meal #3 cost you freedom and a quarter($0.25)"

"be fearless and play!"

"you have to laugh.."

"laughter is the best medicine"

 

"We are going to die and that makes us the lucky ones.."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac33dOAgqus"]YouTube- Great Minds: Richard Dawkins - 'We Are Going To Die!'

Keep it in my wallet; used to look at it to help me quit smoking. I've been smoke-free since late April.

 

"I am not afraid of death, but I am in no hurry to die"

 

"You pick the place and I'll choose the time... And I'll climb.... That hill in my own way."

 

Always keep your clothes & weapons where you can find them in the dark.

 

"Don't let idiots ruin your day"

 

Great thread.

Sometimes I can try too hard to please everybody, so I love to contemplate this one, it's good for me:

"It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world." - George Dennison Prentice

And this one is just incredibly true (I may be paraphrasing a little): "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false face for the urge to rule it." - HL Mencken

 

Ahah, can't rep you right now, but this is sure one I need to remember more

 

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Here's to a long life and a merry one
A quick death and an easy one
A pretty girl and an honest one
A cold beer and another one!

 

you can lead a crack whore to a crack house. but you cant make them suck a dick, til you give them a hit of crack..

 

everything you can imagine is real-Picasso

 

The problem with most people is that when they aren't drunk They're sobar

It's not the length of the path to truth that scares me It's the lack of traffic

You are a spiritual being, covered in matter, havin a human expierence

 

" I rather die on my feet then to live on my knees." Zappata.

 

rather be judged by 12, than carried by 6...

 

Thank you

 

i must create a system or be enslaved by another man's; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

william blake