I know quotes can often be taken out of context but regardless, the following – in empty context – hold some truth, inspiration, and humor to me.

“In the future, will it be legal to poison, mutilate, or infect people, as long as you provide them with food, water, and space to die?” ~ Octavia Butler

“Letting opportunities pass you by leads to regret.”

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.”

“If you tell the truth, you do not have to remember anything.”

“Just because someone doesn’t love you in the way you want, it doesn’t mean that they don’t love you with all that they have.”

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” – Mark Twain

When it is true love, you simply just know… you feel it in your mind, heart, and soul.

There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. ~Leo Buscaglia

Trouble is part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough. ~Dinah Shore

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust

You don’t need a parachute to skydive… you only need a parachute to skydive twice.

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

“Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves” ~ Mathew 10:16

Never test the depth of the water with both feet.

“As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.” ~ Nelson Mandela

“When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.” – Sir Winston Churchill

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.” – Mark Twain

“Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.” – Albert Einstein

“Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.” – Popular Mechanics, 1949

“A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.” – Doug Linder

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching.

If you were a tear in my eye, I would not cry for fear of losing you.

When you walk through life’s pastures, you are bound to step in manure; you can stand there and curse or you can look for the horse.

“Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend’s forehead.” ~ Chinese Proverb

“You can put a rattlesnake on a rollercoaster, but you can’t make it bake you a cake.” ~ Dr. Phil

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” ~ Douglas Adams

“The past is only a guidepost… not a hitching post.” ~ Thomas Holcroft

“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.” ~ Eva Young

“You do not lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower