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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

“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 an …

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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

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 who …

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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 for …

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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

Be Decisive

Anonymous

Quote ~ Arian Foster

Health

Darkness

Born: January 15, 1929 ~ Died: April 4, 1968

Winning

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. -Wilma Rudolph

Imagination

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

Life

Life is just a bowl of cherries, don’t take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love. -Bob Fosse

Loneliness

Born: February 13, 1961 – Occupation: Musician

Short Story

he awoke around 2:00 am and he couldn’t get back to sleep he decided to thrown on some clothes and take a walk the air was warm and it made him feel good ambling on down the street he sees two women in black heels totally naked standing at the corner as he approached they …

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Quick Fiction

Sam was in his glory, as the woman behind the counter, gave him a bag of day old muffins and doughnuts. She also filled his thermos with fresh brewed coffee. Sam is homeless, and has no job. He forages in the dumpsters for returnable cans and bottles, which keeps him busy. Now he is thankful …

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Everything In Life Is Writable

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. -Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)

Life

Life consists in what a man is thinking all day. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daydreams In Music

Ultimate Measure

Born: January 15, 1929 – Died: April 4, 1968

January 1st

Soon we will have completed our annual list of good intentions. Across the country there are millions of cigarettes waiting to be stomped out, tons of fat waiting to be lost, miles to be run, lives to be organized, selves to be improved. Once again, we will pass resolutions as if we were our own …

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