ive been home for nearly a month now. the surgery is over and im on my way to recovery. i have a few posts left to write about my last month in thailand and about how im feeling now that im home, but havent been able to get all my thoughts together into a coherent block of words that others would be able to understand. so today i reverted back to my old trick for inspiration and went on an internet search of some quotes to try to summarize my feelings. i have made some decent progress on my posts, but until that comes together i am just leaving some of the favorites i came upon.
"a ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for." - william shedd
"life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. to keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. - helen keller
"only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." - t.s. eliot
"do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. for if you do, you may still exist, but you will have ceased to live." - henry david thoreau
"if youre not living on the edge, youre taking up too much space." - anonymous
"live every moment in the present. do it. risk it. buy it if you love it. loving well takes practice, delicious practice. if it feels good, it must be good." - gael greene
"make your choice, adventurous stranger. strike the bell and bide the danger. or wonder til it drives you mad, what would have followed, if you had." - the magicians nephew, c.s. lewis
"live passionately, even if it kills you, because something is going to kill you anyway." - webb chiles
"if we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." - thomas alva edison
"for everything you have missed, you have gained something else." - ralph waldo emerson
and the top 3 i am currently feeling from this bunch:
"life is full of choices, if you have the guts to go for it. thats why i get immediately bored with anyones complaining about how boring their life is, or how bad their town is. fucking leave and go somewhere else. or dont." - henry rollins
"things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. but its comforting to know that the ones you love are always there in your heart....and if youre very lucky, a plane ride away." - sex and the city, sarah jessica parker
"it is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had." - elizabeth kubler-ross
