Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans

Aw youth. If I had it to do all over again...I wouldn't have the strength!

"You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think" Winnie the Pooh

"It seems to me he's a good guy who made a big mistake. I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive him" - My 90 year old father, after the first time my husband of 25 years cheated on me. He was a good guy. And then he wasn't.

the ticket, take the ride… and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well… maybe chalk it off to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.” Hunter S Thompson.

Frank: "You ever think about quitting?"
Cheryl Strayed: "Only once about ever two minutes or so."
Frank: "Hell, I've quit a bunch of stuff. I quit jobs, quit marriages."
Cheryl Strayed: "Do you regret any of them?"
Frank: "I didn't have a choice. There's never been a time where there's been a fork in my road."
-Wild

"And so it goes"...Kurt Vonnegut, Author..

"Never play someone else's game? an old man working in a brick yard told me that a long time ago. He said no matter how simple it looks if it's his game he knows how to win it and you don't..

Another quote from Supernatural is when the Angel Castiel suddenly appears in the room and has this conversation with Sam:

Castiel: [Appears in the motel room] I got your message. It was long your message. I find the sound of your voice grating.

Sam: What's wrong with you? [Castiel wobbles] Are you... drunk?

Castiel: No! Yes.

Sam: What the hell happened to you?

Castiel: I found a liquor store.

Sam: And?

Castiel: And I drank it!

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. - Helen Keller

This might sound strange, but this is the best quote I've heard. It's from a Sherlock Holmes movie called The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire.

Are you a friend of the Vampires?
The bats?
Is there any other kind?

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."

Men in Black.
Kay, telling J Edward's why aliens on earth arent public knowledge

"Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex" - Karl Marx

"No animal has more liberty than the cat - the cat is the best anarchist" - Hemingway

"You are worth more than the sum of what you consume" - KMFDM

All the girls I wanted when I was 15 years old
I can have them now.
It's great to be rich and famous.

Leonard Cohen - The spice box of Earth.

"Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke!"

~Bette Midler~

“Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps it’s own secrets, and takes it’s own punishment in silence.” -Dorothy Dix

"You can't handle the Truth" - Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men

One of my favorites, but I am unsure of the source:
"In complete darkness, we are all the same. It is only our wisdom and knowledge that separate us. Don't let your eyes deceive you."

The highest reward for a person's toil in life is not what they get for it, But rather what they become by it.

life is what happens to you while you're making other plans ...

"Ven der putz shteht, ligt der sechel in drerd."

An old Yiddish adage from Philip Roth's lewd comic classic, Portnoy's Complaint.

Translation: “When the prick stands up, the brains get buried in the ground.”

"Today is a good day to die."
Chief Dan George. "Little Big Man"
Not in the literal since. But in the risk of any decision.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. ― Carl Sagan

I ask Hank Williams how lonely does it get...Hank Williams hasn't answered yet.......Leonard Cohen, Tower of Song

" Existence is Pain Jerry"

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." -St. Augustine

"Second star to the right and straight on 'till morning." -St. Peter