Favourite quote that sums up your love of life

[koopkooper]

My favorite quote from a book which sums up my love of life and people I meet in the journey of life is from Jack Kerouac's "On the Road", which without a doubt is my all time favourite book.

"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 and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"

I like this quote as it sums up all of my close friends and those with whom I shall be friends with forever. You meet so many people who are dull and lifeless, who follow the trends and never get excited by anything, people who can't tell stories, tell you why they love someone or something, they exist and that is all. I love people who can teach me something new, always have something to say, always doing something new and are always going somewhere. I'm glad to say this is the thing we all have in common at the Fedora Lounge.
what's yours and why...

 

[Twitch]

Hmm? I guess something as banal as "wherever you go, there you are," sums it up for me. Kind of relates to the fact that fate takes you where you go. My favorite non-love of life saying has always been "life sucks, then you die."

 

[ortega76]

"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

[Girl Friday]

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me...

 

[Dixon Cannon]

John Lennon -'Beautiful Boy'

"Life is what happens while your busy making other plans"

-dixon cannon

 

[Dixon Cannon]

John Lennon - 'Beautiful Boy'

"Everyday and in everyway it's getting better and better."

This is Lennon quoting Emil Coue'. It's known as Coue's prayer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_coue

-dixon cannon

 

[Brooksie]

I like to say "life is just a big adventure" it is my own personal moto that I have come up with over the last couple of years.

Brooksie

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

"Everyday and in everyway it's getting better and better."

This is Lennon quoting Emil Coue'. It's known as Coue's prayer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_coue

-dixon cannon

For John Lennon quotes I always liked,..."Instant Karma's gonna get you,..."

 

[Gray Ghost]

"Have Mercy!" by the Great Elvis Presley and Uncle Jesse Catsopolis on the tv show "Full House".

Gray Ghost

 

[scotrace]

Reach for the stars; you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.

 

[Barbigirl]

Not a rolling stones fan...

But....this lyric, comes to mind very often...as least I keep telling myself it is true.

You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you might find
You get what you need.

 

[Phaedra]

"What is success in this world? I would say it consists of four simple things - to live a lot, to love a lot,to laugh a lot, and from it all, to learn a lot." -Richard J. Needham

 

[Briscoeteque]

"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her."
-W.C. Fields

 

[BegintheBeguine]

We have met the enemy and they are cute.

 

[LizzieMaine]

"Live every day as though it were your last -- and someday, you'll be right." -- Fred Allen

 

[John in Covina]

Sometimes it is simply:

"Welcome to the Monkeyhouse"

From the Vonnegutt story of the same name.

 

[olive bleu]

"I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life...to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." ~Henry David thoreau

 

[Novella]

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
- Abraham Lincoln

 

["Doc" Devereux]

A few for your consideration

"Be excellent to each other, and party on dudes!" - Variously attributed to Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted 'Theodore' Logan.

"I always wake up at the crack of ice." - Joe E. Lewis.

"I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone." - Tallulah Bankhead.

"One of these days ... a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider." - Damon Runyon, Gus and Dolls

"Mayhem is its own reward." - David Devereux.

One for all us scribblers hereabouts:

"Publish and be damned!" - The Right Honourable Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.

And an all time classic to close:

"I'm not talking a cup of cheap gin splashed over an ice cube. I'm talking satin, fire and ice; Fred Astaire in a glass; surgical cleanliness; insight and comfort; redemption and absolution. I'm talking a martini" - Anonymous

 

[Curt Chiarelli]

Life is a venereal disease with a 100% mortality rate.