Imagination

"The world is but a canvas to our imagination."
--Henry David Thoreau

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Old Friends

"There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met."

--Jim Henson

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Mission Statement

It's my birthday today so I'm posting a couple of my favorite quotes. :)  This one I've adopted as my own personal mission statement.

"My face is set, my gait is fast, my goal is Heaven, my road is narrow, my way is rough, my companions are few, my guide is reliable, my mission is clear.  I cannot be bought, compromised, detoured, lured away, turned back, diluted, or delayed.  I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the presence of adversity, negotiate...at the table of the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity or meander in a maze of mediocrity.  I will not give up, shut up, let up, or slow up."
--Robert Moorehead

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Fairy Tale

"Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers"
--Hans Christian Andersen

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.Don't let your fire go out!

This quote reminds you not to be just content with where you are.  You can achieve your dreams, you just have to go out and do it!

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all.  Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach.  Check your road and the nature of your battle.  The world you desire can be won.  It exists.  It is real.  It is possible.  It is yours."
--Ayn Rand

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Step Forward!

These next quotes are ones I try to think of whenever I'm too afraid to take a chance!

"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it.  If you don't ask, the answer is always no.  If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place."
--Nora Roberts

Who's Happier?

"So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on the shore and merely existed?"
--Hunter S. Thompson

Surprise yourself

If everyone were able to do all of the things listed in this next quote, I think they could consider their year very successful.

"May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness.  I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art--write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can.  And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself."

--Neil Gaiman

Audrey

In honor of Women's Week, my next quote is by Audrey Hepburn, one of the classiest women I can think of.

"I believe in pink.  I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot.  I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.  I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls.  I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles."
--Audrey Hepburn

Really Live!

I just sent out a message in a bottle.  It was one of those things I wanted to do before I died, and now I can check it off my bucket list!  My message was about really living life and not letting silly things like "well where am I going to find a cork for my message in a bottle" get in the way of things that you really want to do.  This next quote has a similar message.

"Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss SLOWLY. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably, and never regret ANYTHING that makes you smile."
--Mark Twain

Why Grow up?

Sometimes we need to ignore people when they tell us what is and is not possible.  Don't give up your imagination!

"Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see."
—Douglas Adams

Keep trying

This next quote goes along with last week's quote.  Sometimes we need to realize that we really can do anything we put our minds too, we just need the courage, motivation and willpower, as well as the realization that we may fail sometimes, but lucky for us we can always choose to try again!

"If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."
--Thomas Edison
  

Get out of your way!

Sometimes you are your own worst enemy.  Sometimes you are the one getting in your way and blocking your path.  
"Our doubts are traitors, and makes us lose the good we might oft win, by fearing to attempt."

--William Shakespeare

Life is Adventure!

Sometimes when life starts looking mundane, and the day to day routine starts wearing me down, this next quote helps me remember it's all about how you look at it.

"One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure."
--William Feather 

Go Crazy

Proof that it's healthy to go crazy once in a while:

"In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions."
--Henry Ward Beecher

Don't let 'em get you down!

This quote is a great way to look at an otherwise bad situation:

"They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards."
--General Creighton W. Abrams

The wise and witty Mark Twain

Mark Twain was an incredibly intelligent individual.  He made so many profound statements throughout his life; this next one is not the least of them:

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
— Mark Twain

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Explore. Dream. Discover!

This quote has been one of my favorites for a while.  It reminds me that it's okay to take chances!

"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

Quotes of the week

Hello, I'm Kylie.  This is my blog. Don't worry I'm not going to be blogging about my life because, honestly, who really cares? I will however, be blogging about quotes I find interesting, funny, inspiring, or just plain good!  Hopefully you enjoy them as well, but if not I guess it doesn't matter because, hey, it's my blog!