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“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. ~William James

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” ~ Steve Jobs

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver. ~William James

Life Is The Fire …..

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternty. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life Is Hard

When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’ Sydney J. Harris

Human Nature

“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.” ~ Dale Carnegie

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time. ~Robert McKee

Similar But Different

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth. Margaret Atwood

For What Its Worth

With the current situation going on, all we can do is it live it one day at a time.

Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. ~Jim Henson

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. ~Soren Kierkegaard

Its Surely Not The Same

Since COVID-19 has made its presence, it has changed the ways of life. When I go outside to take my walks, there seems to be very few, if that doing the same thing. Also, not that many cars are seen. Its so surreal, its like living in the Twilight Zone.

For What Its Worth

With the COVID-19 virus affecting our way of living, can we now call it “The New Normal?”

For What Its Worth

We could all use a time out, from the seemingly, neverending media barrage of the Coronavirus. So far, I have been going about the days, and not getting myself all worked up about it.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. ~Albert Einstein

City Life

I’m impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work. Michael Douglas

Backpack

So I’m more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It’s weird being here. It feels like I’m standing next to my real life. Henry Rollins

When It’s Time

“I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.” ~ Jimi Hendrix

Enjoy The Day

“Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.” ~ Horace

No such thing

“No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.” ~ Henry Rollins

If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. ~Sheryl Sandberg

Do not fear mistakes. There are none. ~Miles Davis

Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. ~Anthony Burgess

Tis’ better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else’s perfectly. ~Elizabeth Gilbert

Conquering Some Fear

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fill Your Life Up With Ideas

“Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin”

Uninteresting Life

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. ~Mark Twain

Enjoy Life

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Water And Life

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Life is …..

My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary. ~Albert Einstein

life it is what it is: life

The two most important days in your life are the you were born and the day you find why. ~Mark Twain

One seventh of your life is spent on Monday. ~Aldous Huxley

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles. ~Stephen Covey

Stephen Covey, 1932 – 2012, Author

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” ~Mark Twain

If you can’t do anything about it, laugh like hell. ~David Cook

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.5, Dial Press

“Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn’t painting be too?” ~ Edgar Degas

Thoughts From A Tired Mind

hot searing sun broiling the desert not a house or any building to be seen for as far as the eye can see carcasses of long ago dead animals litter the ground rattle snakes hissing scorpions and black widows crawling seeking to bite and deposit their deadly venom no water to be found not anContinue reading “Thoughts From A Tired Mind”

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. ~Simone Weil

Traveling Is Like Flirting

“Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.” ~ Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, Novelist

As soon as there is life there is danger. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

And

the month of August is now in the home stretch and life goes on

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. ~ Simone Weil*

*French philosopher, 1909-1943

Short, Short Story

Mr Positive debates Mr Negative. Egos clash. Neither comes out a winner. Both egos deflated.

Music ~ Albert Einstein

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ~ Albert Einstein

Me

I am me always will be me no one will ever change me as I was born as me so the end result is a total me and I am happy to be me

One Liner

All ye caffeine junkies, drink up, and get wired.

Six Word Story

Chasing the American dream. Its elusive.

Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what they have been through. ~ Sam Cawthorn

Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours in watching television. ~ David Letterman

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life. ~ Stephen King

Joseph Addison Quote

“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.” ~ Joseph Addison, Essayist 1672 – 1719

Be who you are. ~ Rita Mae Brown

“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all.” ~ Rita Mae Brown. Writer – B: November 28, 1944

May 14

Today, May 14 makes it one full year, that I quit smoking, and I don’t miss it.

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts. ~ Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison (1943 – 1971), No One Hear Gets Out Alive

I like life. It’s something to do. ~ Ronnie Shakes

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well. ~ Dan Rather

Life and death matters, yes. ~ Raymond Carver

“Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.” ~ Raymond Carver, Writer – (1938-1988)

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~ John Dewey

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. ~ Sholem Aleichem

Sholem Aleichem, leading Yiddish author and playwright. 1859-1916

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations. ~ Thornton Wilder

“Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.” ~ Rose Kennedy

B. July 22, 1890 – D. January 22, 1995

Life is consciousness. ~ Emmet Fox

Enthusiast In Life ~ Roald Dahl

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“You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” ~ Albert Camus

Jack Kerouac Quote: Life

“Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” ~ Jack Kerouac

A Note About Me

There are some things in life I do not care to talk about, and that is religion. I am not religious, and i haven’t been for quite a long time. I don’t like it, when certain people try to talk about it, and when they do, I walk away. Also, there are religious bloggers whoContinue reading “A Note About Me”

Life ~ Isaac Asimov

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome. -Isaac Asimov

One Big Road ~ Bob Marley

Matsuo Basho Quote

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. ~Matsuo Basho

Age

Life Quote

Picture Quotes

Quote: Soren Kierkegaard ~ Life

Fixation

Quote: Hermann Hesse

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. ~Hermann Hesse

Bored Solitude ~ Jack Kerouac

“No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength” – Jack Kerouac

Life Is Short ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

One Sentence Fiction

She’s savoring the all around beauty, of the numerous wild flowers.

One Sentence Fiction

She lives in a household full of mad, whacked-out people.

Six Word Story

Living the life of a nomad.

The Four Conditions of Happiness ~ Albert Camus

“The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being, Freedom from ambition, Creation” ~Albert Camus

Six Word Story

The daily daydreamers bus has arrived.

Life Worth Living

“Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.” – Jack Kerouac

Quote George Orwell

Life

Humanity

Stephen Hawking Quote

“It is my view that the simplest explanation is there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization. There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and forContinue reading “Stephen Hawking Quote”

Talent

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. ~Erica Jong

Know Thyself

“The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos” – Timothy Leary