Living Life
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."
Buddha
"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it."
Danny Kaye
"It might not seem like an adventure right now but when you look back, you’ll see."
“Try new things. Have things to talk about when you’re old.”
"The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea."
Isak Dinesen
“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”
Josephine Hart
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Ghandi
“Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self-determined, self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind - and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both.”
Mark Jenkins
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
Mark Twain
“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
Robert A. Heinlein
"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it."
Robert Dahl
"In the end
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you let go?"
Siddhārtha Gautama
“The world is round,” he sang, in tune with his footfalls.
“Existence can be rearranged. A man can be many things.
I am special and free.
And the world is round round round.”
Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.”
Tony Robbins