Thought I'd share some favorite quotes of mine that describe how I believe in living life....

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance." ~Bruce Barton

"A strong enough want is a justifiable need." ~Unknown

"That which we would do, we should do, when we would." ~William Shakespeare

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars." ~Jack Kerouac

"The trouble with resisting temptation is that you may not get another chance." ~Edwin Chapin

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails." ~Unknown

"Now is the time to live your ideal life." ~Cousineau

"Life shrinks or expands directly in proportion to one's courage." ~Unknown

"Our truest life in when we are in dreams awake." ~Thoreau

"To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic." ~De Lamartine

"The price is not the problem. The solution to the problem is to pay the price." ~Unknown

"Perhaps true love can best be recognized by the fact that it thrives under circumstances which would blast anything else into small pieces." ~E. Havemann

"Loving can cost a lot, but not loving always costs more." ~M. Shain

"Love can hope where reason would despair." ~ Lord Lyttleton

"Most of life's failures are those who did not realize how close they were to succeeding when they gave up." Unknown

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go..." ~T.S. Eliot

"Never never never give up." ~Winston Churchill

"Cease to resist it and instantly love takes possession." ~Amy Carmichael

"Hell is full of good intentions." ~Unknown

"Anybody who's ever been successful has, at one time or another, taken a risk. For some people that could mean changing careers. For others, it's simply going with their gut when conventional wisdom says otherwise." ~Unknown

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well." ~ Josh Billings

"Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible." ~Anonymous

"Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks." ~Samuel Johnson

"When one tries to hide love, one gives the best evidence of its existence." Italian proverb

"Confrontation: People shrink from confrontation like vampires from the sun, putting off the battle until it becomes unavoidable. It isn't natural to like confrontation. [But] ultimately, confrontation leads to progress- one way or the other. And any progress is better than no progress. So, the sooner the better. Time is money." ~Stephen Frey

"Who will be a lover must be courageous." Italian proverb

"The thing about soccer is that whenever someone takes a shot they don't really know if it's going to score or not. But they miss every shot they don't take. If you're not going to try because you're not sure of the outcome, then you might as well not even play." Unknown

"In a world dominated by constant negotiation, there is one hard and fast rule. It isn't the one who wants something less who has the advantage. It's the one who appears to want it less." ~Stephen Frey

"I beg you...to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you right now, beacuse you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer..." ~Rainer Maria Rilke

An enlightening monologue from Meet Joe Black:
"It’s not what you say, it’s what you don’t say. There’s not an ounce of excitement, not a whisper of a thrill. This relationship has all the passion of a pair of tit mice. I want you to get swept away. I want you to levitate. I want you to sing with rapture, and dance like a dervish. Be deliriously happy; at least leave yourself open to be. I know it’s a cornball thing… but love is passion. Obsession. Someone you can’t live without. I say fall head over heels, find someone you can love like crazy and love you the same way back. And how would you find him? Well, you forget your head and listen to your heart. ‘Cause the truth is there’s no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love, well, you haven’t lived a life at all. But you have to try, ‘cause if you haven’t tried, you haven’t lived. Stay open; who knows- lightning could strike.”

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." ~Unknown

"Success is the best revenge." ~Unknown

"I don't say we ought to misbehave, but we should look as though we could." ~Oscar Wilde

"Lesson #1: Don't play the lottery. You need all the luck you can muster to own an RX-7." ~Mazda99Nikon (RX-7 Club)