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Life 57....

There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. -C. S. Lewis

Woke up wasted with whiskey on my breath
I hate the taste of it, the day after regret
I got down on my knees, I said ‘God it’s me again
Don’t quit listening and don’t give up on me yet’
-Sean McConnell

People don't change. They modify. They adjust. Underneath, we are who we are. People just get better at covering up their flaws. -Amelia Shepherd

How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar. -Trina Paulus

A learning experience is one of those things that says, “You know that thing you just did? Don’t do that." -Douglas Adams

We are all unkind from time to time. We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it’s like chasing clouds. - Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

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

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. -Bill Cosby

You expect the characters you cast in your life to behave a certain way, to read from a script. The best ones never do.

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future. - Jonathan Safran Foer

When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me.’ You just scream. -John Lennon

It is not easy … to wait. Waiting is what the hunter does, and the poet and the slugger. He waits for the moment of inevitability and fate and then he swings, or shoots, or takes up the pen to put down a line. They don’t teach us to wait in America; they teach us to grab. But waiting is what we do when we are looking for something beautiful, when we are looking for an end to our sorrow. Nothing is infinite in life, not even sorrow. You just have to wait. -Cary Tennis

Never say never. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it. -Gloria Swanson

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance and write poems and suffer and understand, for all of that is life. - J. Krishnamurti

You should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead. -Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

It is what we make of whatever we encounter that determines the outcome. what we choose to see, what we choose to save. and what we choose to remember. - Linda Olsson

Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you. -Herbert Gasser

Only a few find the way, some don’t recognize it when they do; some… don’t ever want to. -The Cheshire Cat, Alice

Despite how much we fought, and how hard I tried to ignore her.... my mother was right. About almost everything.

Think of what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about 3 o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our nations to always put things back where we found them and cleaned up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is better to hold hands and stick together. -Robert Fulghum, All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

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