One Line Thoughts

As I go through life, I like to listen to what people say, and especially find the nuggets in their words, the one line that has meaning in what they wanted at the moment, but also has meaning in a broader context of life. These come from songs, books, articles, interviews, movies, wherever spoken or read. I don't always remember the who, when, and/or where of them, but it's the idea. And a few of mine are thrown in for good measure.

And so, as they say, on with the show.

• The sky is just the sky, why deny the obvious, child.
• A beautiful sunrise can only be known to those who look.
• Time waits for no one, and it won't wait for me.
• I came face-to-face with the Universe, and blinked.
• Some days just are, and some require incentive to be.
• Feel the ocean and smell the sky, and sail into the Mystic.
• Trips through life end at the beginning with a new view.
• Opportunity knocks in many ways, the key is seeing it.
• The horizon may be the same, but the view is always different.
• Never multiply entities greater than their necessity.
• O-bla-de, O-bla-da, Life goes on.....
• There are warm winds, heat and blue skies, and roads that go forever.
• Life goes on, no one gets a rehearsal.
• I didn't hear the melody until I needed a song.
• Like the rockin' of the ocean, and the rollin' of the sea, ...
• A problem is only a challenge from a new perspective.
• Don't worry, everyone goes south now and then.
• I can go east, I can go west, it's up to me to decide.
• "Look at what is and see what can be." - Einstein
• You can't make mistakes if you don't do anything new.
• Bring back the Magic, don't make life so tragic.
• It's always sunny, the clouds only hide that fact.
• Trips have beginnings and ends, journeys have stops.
• If it's sunny, cloudy, rainy, or snowy, why are you here and not elsewhere?
• Live to your own expectations. Or, you may as well go fishing.
• You've broken the speed of the sound of loneliness.
• However events occur, the perception of those events is yours.
• Adversity will make you better, if it doesn't kill you.
• Appreciate the path as well as the destination in life.
• Remember, it's life that matters, not time's passing.
• The pages of our life are written, not read, by each of us.
• ...When will you realize, Vienna waits for you...
• Sometimes, we are all we got. This is something I have not forgot.
• There are such things that'll turn your memories into dreams again.
• All that is important is the Joy and Passion for Life.
• We chart our own course on the map of the human heart.
• There are no troubles or problems, only new adventures!
• Where the rivers change direction, across the Great Divide.
• It's a long, long way from Clare to here.
• Can't help but wonder where I'm bound, where I'm bound.
• Some days gravity feels worse than it is or should be.
• The perception of youth and the reality of youth are not the same.
• Whatever you do with your hands, do it with all your heart.
• Takin' time to escape the maze, lookin' for better days, better days.
• I keep searching for the spirit of the Great Heart.
• Oh, watch out for that gravity storm.
• Between the longing for love and the struggle for the legal tender.
• The finest hour is between the edge of night and the break of day.
• Something about the landing gear, we're runnin' on island time.
• Remember, it is You who are asked by life the meaning of life.
• I dream of Columbus, there's an ache in my travelling heart.
• It is the good fight that matters to the spirit.
• I met a man who thought he knew...only to discover I was mistaken.
• There's always a new trail to walk and a new world to see.
• You've got to get up and make your life shine...
• They've never seen a hawk on the wing, nor Spring hit the Great Divide.
• Follow your dreams, and do what you love to do.
• There are those who sustain us, and there are those who divert us.
• Give it your best, remember life is what you choose.
• Spread to the corners of the Earth, completely obliterated, like a dream.
• There are places you remember; there are memories you recall.
• He came with determination, and left with nothing, but richer still.
• We've been through so many changes together, long may you run.
• When you see the Southern Cross for the first time, you realize why you came.
• It's time to go somewhere, where someone will make me feel warm.
• Our lives are always do-overs, all we have to do is start.
• We weave the threads of life of the coat that we are.
• The best thing is to love, and be loved in return.
• We've been through so many changes with trunks of memories to come.
• Till you can see on a cold day dawning...
• When you look into my eyes, do you see the weary gypsy in my soul?
• Why should my heart be lonely, longing for heaven and home?
• Wish I was a grain of sand, lay me down and let the ocean wash over me.
• With a song that I can sing, one that I can keep...Let me sleep.
• Between the first step and the last smile, you live once in a while.
• ...and tomorrow the sun will come in the twinkling of an eye.
• In dreams we do so many things, and fly above the World so high.
• It was a time I won't forget, the sorrow and regret.
• I said what I believe in my soul, ain't what I see with my eyes.
• And I'm sitting here in the sand, asking the ocean what to do.
• There are places I have been, and faces I knew when.
• Catch the warmth of a summer's evening, and a winter's dawn.
• You can feel the heat of the heart come rising through.
• ...like the moonlight on a clear mountain lake.
• Lord knows when the cold wind blows, it'll turn your head around.
• There's a song inside of me, take these chains away.
• To fulfill the need to be who I am in the World is all I ask.
• Now ev'rything's in its place, but where do I put her memory?
• Raise the window on another day, take it as it comes.
• The Story goes, the truth is, no one knows.
• Alone on a cold day dawning, are you still free, can you be?
• And the dust, the gentle legacy you left, is falling softly on my mind.
• Love Life, though you don't know how this day will end.
• Love needs a heart and we each need to find ours.
• The higher you climb, the more you see, the farther you reach, ...
• There are wounds that stir up the force of gravity.
• And your dreams are like marbles in the pockets of a little boy.
• Out on the range, the quiet, endless, still.
• Don't let the system fool you, all it wants to do is rule.
• So many ways to understand, so much to comprehend.
• The heart is all that matters in the end.
• Because Life is the question and Life is the answer.
• Try imagining a place that is always safe and warm.
• Yeah, call it a loan, till I'm paid for the seeds I've sown.
• The only way to get there is to take that step to the other side of life.
• Half moon rising in a warm, dusty dream, a whisper in the trees.
• Find someone to love and show her the way to your heart.
• The tales of our past are written between the lines in our face.
• We decide which is right..., and which is an illusion.
• The quicksand of time makes us want to fly.
• Such a long, long time to be gone, and a short time to be there.
• I can't imagine what we try to prove, what we already know.
• In the fast runnin' rivers of choice and chance, time stops here.
• Tell me where does it say, when you're lost, you stay that way.
• ...and I looked in your heart, and I saw there was somebody there.
• You know you believe all you really have is time.
• ...even if it's stupid, 'cause I see, it's a beautiful life.
• Spirit, my friend, come on and move me, my heart lies ready to fly.
• Happy, boy, you bet I am, holding on to this smile as long as I can.
• Wake up, see the morning light. This is you. This is today.
• ...and still I stand here everyday, with a burning wish to fly away.
• Forever in my dreams, my heart will be hanging on to this sweet memory.
• There is no finish line, only the continuing spirit.
• How can I search for a rainbow I'll never find?
• Some days just drop in on us.
• These are the days you remember, never before and never again.
• Ah, the life we lead, the tales we tell, and the price we pay.
• Till you make your peace with yesterday, can you have a tomorrow?
• Every rivers searches for its sea, everyone searches for their destiny.
• It sounds an echo from the soul, how can you keep from singing?
• Close your eyes Mijito (my son), dream of someplace far from here.
• Everyone knows a story of love, held within, to retell for hurting times.
• Where time is yours, where the sun sets and the stars rise to light the sky.
• You may be drifting lonely, yeah, but you're drifting free.
• Deep inside is where one lonely, forgotten dream is waiting. Closer still.
• You can't get what you want, til you know what you want.
• I saw myself walking in my father's foot steps. It scared me.
• Experience is what you get when events don't happen the way you expect.
• How can you keep believin' when they won't tell you the truth?
• The consequence of creation is the frightful discovery of one's soul.
• Who will need an explanation if all is understood?
• A misty occurrence happens all the time.
• Silence speaks where words can not mend.
• Not even time can heal a heart where love has failed.
• Love can not bridge two hearts that trust and hope have torn asunder.
• Love can not build a bridge between two hearts, only commitment can.
• If you trip over reality, try not to fall.
• But they're as big as the promise, the promise of the coming day.
• There are always reasons to stay, and there are always reasons to go.
• He came with ambition, constantcy, and resolve, and left with nothing.
• No more lies, only the truth can set you free.
• How long does it take till my soul gets it right?
• We should never answer ourselves, but constantly seek to ask ourselves.
• Answers to the heart and soul don't come, but are.
• There are no answers, only the eternal search for new questions.
• The way it works is, the train moves not the station.
• Know where you've been, know where you are, and know where you're going.
• Send in the clowns. Don't bother, they're here.
• A cone waits through winter for its moment in the spring, to burst with life.
• I reackon my feet know where they want me to go, walkin 'down a country road.
• Don't be a stone that is polished and shined, keep your edges rough.
• The look in your eyes ain't the same anymore, and time can't change it.
• Sometimes it all comes together, sometimes it's all lost.
• Don't worry about wasted time, it's come and gone, years ago.
• We open up a quarrel between the present and the past, and sacrifice the future.
• Till you take that first step, how will you know?
• When you get down in your soul, and it makes you feel whole.
• When you open up your heart, you'll get everything you need.
• Sometimes I wish I could fly, like a bird in the sky.
• If my heart could do my thinking, and my head begin to feel.
• It's still the same, still the same, at the mention of your name.
• There's so much I can never say of the ruins left behind.
• It came to me this morning, I was walking down the street...
• You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire.
• There's this loneliness springing up from life, like a fountain from a pool.
• Take me to the ocean where the winds of the past blow through my heart.
• It could take me all my life, but it would only take a moment.
• See how we reach out instinctively for what we can not have.
• So don't ask me why I'm running out of laughter.
• I want you to know your enemy is sleeping, your woman is free.
• There are so many in your life, and so many still to be.
• Every man has to die, and it's written in the stars above.
• If you know the answer, now's the time to say.
• Wrote a song for everyone, but I couldn't even talk to you.
• Guess you know the tune. Oh, Lord, stuck in Lodi again.
• Met myself acomin', strung-out, hung-out on the line.
• Your history shows in your face.
• Seems what's in my heart is more honest and sincere.
• They say you tell by what you see, not by what you hear.
• I can hear her heartbeat, a sound never so sweet, to me.
• I'll remember her as I walk among the fields of gold.
• When you have a dream like mine, no one can take you down.
• Sometimes at night I can see the traces left on my soul.
• We learn so much, know so little, and pretend we are wise.
• Be good, be kind, be truthful, and be free.
• All our life we search for someone to love, never knowing...
• Reach for the stars. Reach, until... you touch them.
• I remember when, for I have seen brighter days, brighter days.
• To be born in the fires of uncertain times...
• Tomorrow we answer for yesterday's dream, and live in between.
• Sometimes when I wake up I say, just let the World go by, this time.
• You can survive with disappointment, but you can't live without hope.
• You just might find the winds of change on the wings of the night.
• A problem is just an opportunity in disguise.
• Somtimes all we have is a faith..., in ourselves.
• Darkness, darkness, be my pillow, keep me from things I can not see.
• Darkness, in the silence of your shadow, in the quiet of your deep.
• When I'm worn and tired, it's good to warm the bones by the fire.
• No more turning away from the coldess inside, it's the turning of the wheel.
• Silence speaks louder than words of promises spoken.
• With love, you're never without, and there ain't no reason to doubt.
• I want to get away and live my life among rivers and trees, and be free.
• Till we have seen us by the light of the cold, hard day...
• Some days you wish it were raining.
• Do we tell the truth, or live these lies?
• After the dreams fade away, reality is always there.
• There's no free ride in this carnival world.
• In the morning when you rise, aren't you glad to be alive?
• If you're waiting for future, reliving the past, what's now?
• If you live from the heart, you'll know when to start and stop.
• Chop that wood, carry that water, practice life.
• We all have dreams that don't come true.
• We seek paradise, forgetting it's the road that's paradise.
• Oh Lord, see me through one day, one day at a time.
• Why must you worry, 'cos you know yourself that's not your way.
• If truth and fairness are the clothes of judgement, wear them well.
• Changes in attitudes, changes in latitude, nothing seems quite the same.
• If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
• The suns shines on everything, and everyone, regardless.
• Kimosabe, kiss my ass, I bought a boat, I'm going out to sea.
• ...but I still haven't found what I'm looking for.
• Be yourself, and don't let the bastards grind you down.
• I heard the wind sing a lonely tune, and tell the moon and stars.
• When the rivers are risin', and the rain keeps comin'..., soul searchin'.
• Old love can set you free, new love is calling me, calling me.
• When you realize this world is made for two,... true love.
• Some days just slip through your fingers and fall on the floor.
• That that which you fear the most, could be met halfway.
• Everybody's rushing around trying to find something to believe in.
• We live with the words of today, for the truths we'll discover tomorrow.
• All my life I have just been waiting for this moment to arrive.
• Life is what you make it; Life is what you do.
• Nature is not something outside ourselves; it is part of who we are.
• When you have nothing, you have everything.
• When you feel there is too much, you only need to start somewhere.
• In the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
• You won't always get what you want, but you'll always get what your need.
• Down where the river meets the sea,...feels like rain.
• Don't afix blame for mistakes, but challenge yourself to learn from them.
• Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, stuck in the middle again.
• How does it feel to be on your own? Ah, how does it feel?
• The fear of living for nothing strangles the will.
• You'll wake up tomorrow and wrestle the sorrow that holds you down today.
• Every day we stand before the big empty and venture into the day.
• Heaven is in her eyes, paradise in her heart.
• A little bit of love is all you really need sometimes.
• You can touch the sky, just believe in yourself, just believe.
• Show some emotion, open, open your heart, set free an ocean.
• Take me now, hold me close, don't let go. I'm coming home.
• I don't want to be a tourist in someones else's heart.
• What happened to the light in your eyes, and the fire in your heart?
• These days I'm searchin for a reason to believe, these days...
• I remember a time when happiness was...
• Memory, all alone in the moonlight.
• Ship of fools, sail away from me.
• To believe in just livin 'is a hard way to go.
• Just give me one thing that I can hold on to.
• Deep in my soul, I've been so lonely, all my hopes fading away.
• Do you ever get to a point in your life where nothing makes any sense.
• Always keep the child in you, the wonder and awe with life.
• Every day we are greeted with a new day, a new sunrise to start life.
• There's a hole in the somewhere, and a space in the sometime.
• You're out there on your own where your memories can find you.
• Hit the ground runnin', Hit the ground runnin 'for your life.
• Chop wood, carry water; live and love the basics of life.
• Once there was a way to get back homeward, once there was a way...
• Closer than I've been before to being alive, since I've arrived.
• You can say what you've gained, but you can never measure what you've lost.
• All our lives we go round and round, while time keeps the pace.
• I was drowned, washed up, and left for dead, but it's alright.
• If you want to kiss the sky, learn how to kneel.
• Lately I've been runnin 'on faith, what else can I do?
• There is more than one answer to my question pointing me in a crooked line.
• It's only life, yeah, right.
• I'm outward bound, on the road to life.
• Never let the memories of her slip away from your heart.
• I'm on a journey across a personal desert, without map or compass.
• Every personal dream begins with courage, the courage to try.
• When you walk in the mountain, there's a chance you just might meet your soul.
• I know I'm searchin' for something, something missing from my soul.
• There's a light inside that shines from the inside out, your soul.
• We have an answer to your question, it might be silence, it might be words.
• Close your eyes and see the dream of your fancy.
• There's a place I can go when I'm down, when the world is heavy on my shoulders.
• The simple truth can cut through anything.
• The thing that matters the most is what is there and what is real.
• Sometimes it's just like that.
• We all carry our stones, our truths to the day, our shadows to the night.
• There is thunder in our hearts.
• We are alive for this moment, yesterday is gone, tomorrow hasn't come.
• Just waiting for a thought to fill this void.
• I looked out over nowhere, and saw no one there to help.
• We need vision and perspective to see what is there, and what is true.
• Know the difference between the day-off and the off-day.
• We seek the whole when seeing the parts.
• We are the physicist, the politician, and the poet.
• The Universe heals from the inside, ourselves.
• Your life is the story of the wind.
• I want to step out in the morning sun and greet the dawn.
• I know exactly where these arms belong..., waiting for you.
• No one dies of old age on the Seregenti.
• There is a voice in the Universe that only you can hear.
• A realist demands the impossible, an idealist the impractical.
• Be careful of the tree in the What If forest.
• Somehow we're neither here nor there, like a runaway train.
• If there's a logic to my madness, it's found in my eyes.
• Your Life is now, your past is just that.
• Make somebody happy, make somebody strong.
• It's hard when your spirit is looking back at you.
• Stand beside me God, stand behind me, and before me, so I am true to my word.
• It's all things natural, it's all things right.
• Oh, sometimes, it's just not that easy.
• Strive for clearness of view, stillness of mind, and strength of heart.
• Every cry is a song, every song is a prayer, every prayer must be heard.
• What matters to me most is what is there and what is real.
• There is a history of questions and the truth I can only feel.
• All I want is love and affection.
• Don't be silent if you have something to do.
• Ride easy on the lonesome prairie, as far as you can see.
• Between alone and loney is a mighty fine line.
• The way that you wander is the way that you choose.
• Each of us have to pay the bills for our own life.
• 'Cause these dreams are dead, and I'm alive.
• Make me feel closer that I've been to being alive, since I've arrived.
• It's chasing something you may never catch.
• Between the light of day, and the dead of night, can the truth be seen?
• We are separate, we are one, and we struggle to be.
• Look for the smile in her eyes, and the laughter in her heart.
• We are..., and we can only try to be...
• Follow your dreams and enjoy the trip.
• We create our demons, and only we can face and destroy them.
• "Life is a daring adventure, or nothing." - Helen Keller.
• Success and failure are partners in life, and whatever you do.
• Death is certain, only its time has yet to be discovered.
• Follow the paths you choose with heart.
• The only thing we truly possess is ourselves, everything else is borrowed.
• The essence of life is simple, live.
• In life, be sure you know what it is.
• Everything is an illusion, nothing is real.
• Losin' everything is like the sun going down on me.
• It doesn't pay to sit there and remember when.
• The certainties of nature and the seasons offset the uncertainties of the world.
• The will is just part a matter of when.
• Some loves are lies of the heart.
• Somebody holds the key.
• He sings out his song, as if someone can hear.
• The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time.
• Since you're only here for a while, try to do it with some style.
• We are bound together for the tasks and the road ahead.
• There's a cry in a song, Amazing Grace.
• The beauty is in the walking, through the World and Life.
• Don't buy tomorrow for the price you pay today.
• You are looking for something that's not in your life.
• Seeking is not in the searching, but in how to see.
• Everyone has some pain, everyone gets caught out in the rain.
• Tell me when does the anger and the fury cease?
• I've been waiting for an answer, someone promised me one.
• Oh Mexico, sound so simple, I just have to go.
• I've seen fire and rain, and lonely times when I couldn't find a friend.
• Look down upon me, Jesus, you just have to see me through another day.
• Sweet dreams and flying machines, in pieces on the ground.
• You have the power to get out of the life of broken promises.
• Try not to live in the used-to-be.
• Live in the color of your dreams.
• All you have to do is say you will..., and believe it.
• I've got a lot of feelings, but I aint got much to say.
• It's so intense from my experience, and still doesn't make any sense.
• Try a little tenderness.
• It's never to late to fall in love again.
• You start with a dream, the rest is up to you.
• I used to be disgruntled, now I'm only amused.
• Yes, it's true, you don't hear the one the gets you.
• Cuts through your heart like a dream and leaves a scar on your soul.
• My hopes for the future will drift into the past.
• Love can smile on you like an angel, or treat you like a fool.
• I'm wasted and I can't find my way home.
• Now and then, in the color of the evening, I've come to miss a few.
• Take heed, take heed of the western wind, take heed of stormy weather.
• It sorta' eases the pain and levels the thinkin'.
• A heart may be broken, but it's never gone.
• Try to get beyond the emptiness.
• The truth is neither fair, kind or right; it's only itself.
• Are there really answers, or just questions disguised as answers.
• There are times when the questions run too deep for such a simple man.
• "Everybody should have a rubber ducky." - Ernie (Sesame Street)
• All around you, you can see, you make your own reality.
• Love doesn't ask why, it speaks from the heart, it doesn't explain.
• When all you need is a healin' sound, ...listen to the water.
• Let the light inside, the light inside, shine from the inside out.
• When you're half way up, remember you're half way down.
• There are moments in my lifetime that my heart still replays.
• I've learned some lessons sometimes I wasn't in a hurry to learn.
• The reason for doing anything is just that, doing.
• Will the wind remember the names it's whispered in the past?
• Be wholesome, be strong, be loving, and for God's sake be true.
• The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.
• Wherever you go, there you are.
• Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
• If I had a rocket launcher, I wouldn't hesitate, to blow the SOB's away.
• Always hope for the best, and always keep smiling at the present.
• A man's home is his heart, and there is where he must abide.
• Lose your dreams, and you'll lose your mind.
• I've seen that life touches with pain, and we change.
• Tell me, how did I lose myself along the way?
• I know you're tired from the violence of your storms.
• Something that was left behind, something in a child's mind.
• Something that happened long ago, something that will not let go.
• I keep looking back a lifetime, back across a desert where no one can explain.
• Can you keep all the promises in your eyes, all your life?
• Give me flowers while I'm living, to enjoy while I can.
• I can see the peaceful times I've had, but it's not helping me now.
• When it comes to love, your heart doesn't know any rules.
• Scrambling in the back of my brain, the irony sublime.
• Life is short no matter how long you live, so live.
• You find it all connected if you take the time to look around.
• Oh, sometimes, it's just not that easy; I just have to call you.
• Get up, Stand up, and be your ownself.
• Is there a voice to soothe your soul, and lead you home?
• Boldness has mystery, imagination, and adventure.
• Keep your passion, your pride, and remember only a fool is satisfied.
• I learned to look around me, and see what has come to be...
• Nature was not created nor is governed by God. Nature is God.
• Tell me how you feel, without words.
• Look into your heart my friend, that will be the return to yourself.
• Do we accept the truth, or live a lie?
• In the heart of the night, in the cool fallin' rain, a full moon is rising...
• Sometimes it's the only thing I can do, 'cause it feels so right.
• Death is something that happens when you're busy with other things.
• When times aren't good, and hope is a distant memory, think of the alternative.
• Across the continent a night bird sings, and somewhere someone hears its call.
• If you're disillusioned, keep your head down. they'll know you have no answers.
• You can never absolutely know where you are, and where and how fast you're going, at the same time.
• Sometimes, there's no end in sight, only the dead of night.
• Seems the more I know the less I understand.
• It all comes down to distance, and the illusion of time.
• Between the quiet of the mountains and the crashing of the sea, we seek a place.
• Life is not unlike hiking, it's one foot in front of the other.
• Oh what I want to know is..., how does the song go.
• If you're chasing the future, or running from the past, where's the present?
• Dare we start journey through the dark geography of our own mind and soul?
• So many roads to choose, and yet we must pick only one to follow.
• Running, footprints in the sand, lead back to where I am.
• It's a lonely and restless feeling, and it's touching you.
• It's a mighty fine line, what you're running to and what you're leaving behind.
• Slowly but surely I'm learning 'bout somewhere deeper than I've ever been.
• Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something.
• Words were not spoken, but so much was said.
• Stories have endings, fanatasies only fade away.
• Sometimes making the best of a bad situation is all we can do.
• Tomorrow's around the corner, but, in the meantime I love the now.
• Strive to be, that's all you can do.
• Think of the human perspective of Dorthea Lang and Ansel Adams.
• The legacy we leave is the love in others' hearts.
• Unless you can see the sky, you can't dance in the light.
• Answers are the easy part, questions raise the doubt.
• I know what it takes to be lonely; I know what it takes to be free.
• Tell me what happened along the way; how did we change?
• You can win from losing when the soul rises above the senses.
• ...until the stars were flushed from the sky by the light of dawn.
• We're all in our places with dull, grumpy faces.
• I'm not going to worry about now, tomorrow's too far away.
• There are images around us in everything we see.
• The pain is part of being, that's the deal.
• There is not one thing that is true, it's all truth.
• You have answers till you're faced with a question you can not accept.
• How the nights can fly and the day can fill you.
• Climb the mountains and get their tidings.
• He is kissing her forever; she is kissing him goodbye.
• There's a storm ragin' through my heart tonight.
• When you score runs, you usually win.
• Good pitching will stop good hitting, and vice versa.
• You can't trade empty for empty.
• The depth of your dreams, the height of your wishes, for what might be.
• Prosperity has it season, whether it's here or going by.
• You can't mourn the loss of the choices you lose, or the ones you didn't have.
• There are the things that will turn your memories into dreams again.
• It is very dangerous to try and leap a chasm in two bounds.
• Everyone loves the sound of a train in the distance.
• Everyone carries the reminders of everyone who cuts us or knocked us down.
• Will you remember, somebody loves you more than you will know.
• One begins to look between the pages of a look.
• Call it fate or call it chance, it may happen with a glance.
• It's time to get down to it; it's time to go racin'.
• What you feel in practice ain't even close to what you'll feel at the start.
• I will remember you that way, with every beat of my heart.
• You have underestimated the power of wonder and the ability to discover.
• And the moon rose over an open field.
• The way we look at a distant constellation that's dying in a corner of the sky.
• I feel good. It's a fine day. The way the sunlight reflects off the water.
• In the sweeping arc of life, we stand on a single grain of time.
• The dreams that possess you can blossom and bless you, or run you insane.
• Small things like reasons are kept in a jar.
• I will not walk in my father's shoes.
• Darkness, darkness, take away this pain of knowing, feel the emptiness inside.
• Remember to dream, but also remember to make your dreams reality.
• You must ask what it takes to remember.
• Problems are our own creation, and we are the solution.
• Sometimes your life can get sidetracked, getting lost in what you don't need.
• Your heart is moved by the spirit when you're near it.
• It's a lot easier to catch the ball with the glove.
• Don't let another day go by.
• I'm just trying to find peace with my own existence.
• I want to live my life on the edge of reality.
• Feet don't fail me now.
• You're not defeated when beaten, only when you quit.
• Death is no different than some life I've seen, close to the light.
• When your heart is beset with memories you wished you'd never made.
• In the southland of your heart, there's no question of degree.
• All the ways I want you.
• I'll dance without sleeping, dance til I'm numb, til I can overcome.
• To be somewhere you have to go there.
• In our past lies the beauty of the present.
• It is not the searching to seek that matters, it is the searching.
• Let's sip a cup of kindess, my friend, to days gone by.
• Wouldn't it be nice if I could say what the hell it's all been for.
• We have a wee bit of trail to cover, a?
• One day you look up and it's gone.
• There's no such thing as a bad day. It's a day!
• I know I'll stop and think about them,... in my life.
• Something happened, I know not why, how or what. It happened.
• Peace is not found with what you want, but with what is.
• If you want the truth, you can see it in my eyes.
• It was a morning, a bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down, and won.
• Memories can't be bought like Carnival souvenirs.
• Don't you ask yourself? Not often,... (pause) ..., Now and then.
• Where's the ocean? Where's the moment I once knew inside my heart?
• ...for in the end, we are all made of stardust.
• There are no answers in Life, only events.
• Experience is not what we know, but what we learn.
• Don't mistake for discussion for answers.
• You have to choose happiness, it doesn't choose you.
• If you find you're going in the wrong direction, remember God allows U turns.
• The obscure we see eventually, the completely apparent takes longer.
• Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
• The principle mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
• Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
• Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
• A hug beats the heck out of all the theology in the world.
• I'd prefer that things were different, but my happiness does not depend on it.
• Accept anger, give grace.
• Exercise desire over doubt.
• Never sweat the small stuff, and remember, everything is small stuff.
• I'm at the age where the past is constantly sneaking itself into my life.
• Just what the truth is, I don't know anymore.
• Reality is somewhere between what we know and what we think.
• I am hurrying, it just looks like slow motion.
• I am the master of my fate, the captain of my soul.
• Time it was, and what a time it was, a time of innocence...
• You only make it through this life with the strength of your desire.
• There are no answers, only the search.
• Color me with a happy crayon.
• Tell me what you're feeling, I'll tell you what I know.
• You learn to live with what is, not what you want it to be.
• Some mornings we wake up with the heavy load of history.
• It seems I should be getting somewhere. But I'm always either here or there.
• At the end of every heartache, people find a reason to believe.
• I look at the world and wonder. The question is, what do I wonder?
• Between birth and death, life is what happens in between.
• I wouldn't be here myself if it weren't for my job.
• I'm laughing when I make it to Saturday, and I'm still alive.
• Always stand at the edge of defiance.
• My Quest is real, my enemies relentless.
• The pictures that last are those of the heart.
• Will the wind remember the names it blew yesterday?
• Today will sweep the pieces of yesterday's shattered lives.
• I will remember you. Will you remember me?
• Sometimes it's easier to wait around than to die.
• Soon the snow will turn the sky to winter.
• I have this bank of bad habits in the corner of my soul.
• Indecision may or may not be my problem.
• Sometimes I hear a fiddle playing, or maybe it's only a notion.
• If you want to make a living, open a delicatessen.
• When you lose, the numbers are always ugly.
• Accepting our age is one of the hardest things we do as we get older.
• It's just an illusion of the way I used to feel.
• 49 reasons all in line, all of them good ones, all of them lies.
• I'm stuck between two trucks in the traffic jam of life.
• I'm the fool I never thought I was.
• We only get what we measure.
• Moving at the speed of thought.
• Excuse me, are the explosives really necessary?
• Nothing is forgotten, only left behind.
• I just want to live in the happily-ever after, every now and then.
• It's time to start over, to make a new beginning.
• Take away my sadness, fill my life with gladness, ease my troubles.
• "Life has more imagination than we carry in our dreams." - C. Columbus
• Life is lived prospectively, but understood respectively.
• When you're an ice sheet 3 miles thick, you don't exactly just sit still.
• That was the night I painted the sky.
• I see sad surrender in my lover's eyes.
• There is nothing more disturbing than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
• Nothing ever happens if you don't show up.
• It's like being a snowflake in a blizzard, then you remember everyone's a snowflake.
• Hear not what I say, but listen to what I mean.
• Never discuss dynamic corporate reoganization with your mouth full.
• You've done this before? Yes, a lot...., but not at night.
• This shouldn't take very long... Actually I have no concept of time.
• What is the sound of colored silence or thick air?
• "The end is nothing, the road is all." - Will Cather
• I have no answers, only life as I haved lived.
• "Stayed tuned, hot rod, we've only just started." - Rusty Wallace
• I am out of faith. This is how I feel.
• ...In symphonies that live within the pockets of our soul.
• "Being out front, dag gummit, it works every time." - Darrell Waltrip
• Magic? I don't have a problem with it, I just don't use it.
• "There's nothing aerodynamic about duct tape." - Ned Jarrett
• Walking in the field of unanswered questions.
• Times like this call for hard liquor and tall glasses.
• "Die knowing something, you're not here long." - Walker Evans
• Getting there isn't the problem, going there is.
• Knowing is the easy part, saying it out loud is the hard part.
• "Something broke that makes it go. It must have been important."
• There is no one to defeat you, except those within your own mind.
• Where did you learn to shift?
• The floggings will continue until morale improves.
• Winning only matters in surgery and war.
• Some parts wake up faster than others, broke parts take a little longer.
• Knowledge is free, but you must bring your own container.
• "I may be a hairdresser, but I still have a light bulb." - Lecion
• Everything is not enough, and nothing is too much, to bear.
• The terror and sorrow of a sensitive man who looked into the abyss, and saw, the abyss.
• Unanswered questions and undone things only collect dust...
                  And far more important things exist in this world than dust.
• Go ahead and swing the bat, you're not going to hurt the ball.
• If it's not rock bottom, you can sure see it.
• If you end up upside down in a ditch, you've done something wrong.
• Ok, son, give that rock-and-roll thing a try.
• All you have is your soul
• "We're young, dumb and stupid." - Kurt Busch
• It's hard to go somewhere when you don't know where you're going.
• "I have no place to go, but I want to be gone." - anonymous mental health patient
• "It has that effect." - Eygptian journalist about gov't pressure.
• Ding! "Sorry, I gotta go. My fishsticks are ready."
• I was born, I will die, and everything in between is mine. - Eddie Veder
• Peace is a gift that comes from within.
• I only own my mind.
• "Here's my plan. Using mainly spoons, we dig a tunnel under the city, and release her into the wild."
• "She had drawn a breath that was not followed by another." - James Olsen
• "I like the idea of a lazy tumor, over a malignant one."
• This is one of those situations where you can really ask, "What would Jesus do?"
• Live the life you love, and love the life you live.
• Somebody make me feel the things I can't feel alone.
• Is choice an issue?
• Someone take my heart home.
• In the end, what have we learned?
• I fell hard to the floor, but luckily my nose broke my fall.
• What part of "not my problem" don't you understand?
• I'm sorry, I'm not allowed to fratenize with members of the Evil Plot. - Monsters Inc
• The absence of evidence for one view does not prove the existence of evidence for the opposite.
• The oil pan failed to hold the contents of the engine when it broke. - BP
• The lack of seeking answers isn't as worrisome to me as the lack of looking for questions.
• We suffer the damage from mental, emotional and spiritual shrapnel in our brains.
• It seemed like the summer lasted forever, but it was just one summer. And just as soon it was gone.
• What do you do with old regrets?
• It looks like lonesome is looking for company.
• It may not be what I planned, but it's what I chose.
• It's not the end of the world, but I can see it from here.
• Something just left, and I didn't hear the door close.
• You don't have to run faster than the lion, only faster than another gazelle.
• Answers to Life? Hell, I'm still looking for clues.
• When you're fallling, you can tell which way is down.
• I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.
• Forgiveness is between them and God. My job is to arrange the meeting. - John W. Creasy
• She gave me the blues, sho nuf.
• The difference between aloneness and loneliness is like being broke and being poor.
• I never knew there were corners in time until I was told to go stand in one.
• What do I do with the memories that sit around and stare at me.
• I'm insanely crazy in an insanely crazy world. Does that make me sane?
• Don't shoot the piano player because people can't dance.
• Knowing that changes everything.
• A blind man never knows what he's missing, a wise man never misses what he knows.
• Poetry is the private part becoming the public present.
• She said, "I'm leaving now, let me know how you are." He said, "You already know."
• Photography is about what's in front of the lens.
• Sometimes I feel I'm standing in the Sahari of my soul.
• If your tears had a voice, what would they say?
• We are who we are. And everything else just is.
• How do I stop the rain falling on your heart?
• She's never been more alone. She's never been more free.
• If it takes all the future to live through the past...
• God is greater than all and present in each.
• Are rockets really necessay?
• Sometimes, blind as it is, hope is all we have.
• Makes me think reality is not where I want to be.
• One of us was right, and one of us was gone.
• Don't take a walk in a cow pasture if you don't know bullshit when you see it.
• I'll be glad to pay you next Tuesday for a hamburger you give me today.
• Arrogance doesn't have ears.
• Ignorance doesn't have eyes.
• The problem with arrogance is that it's deaf and blind.
• "It hurt a lot.", he said of his busted foot, "But the broken nose took the pain of it away."
• Learning is walking in the direction of knowledge.
• "West Texas is a very romantic place, if you're fresh out of the pen." - Joe Ely
• "Sleep was not my lover last night." - a friend
• A great thought isn't always a great idea.
• "Like shotgun needs an outcome. I'm your prostitute, you gonna get some." - Lykke Li
• Life is what will kill you, death is only the last act.
• I'm feeling more and more like less and less. I'm far away from my heart.
• Love doesn't see age, love only sees the human heart.
• The only thing you aim at the heart is love.
• Honor and respect yourself today so you can read this note tomorrow.
• You don't shoot yourself in the foot when you're still on the horse, because
          when you get off the horse, you'll need to stand and walk on that foot.
• Looking back, the path that I chose was unwise.
• "Don't let the bastards drive you down." - U2
• When you're seeking answers it is easier to look out a window than in a mirror.
• "When you hit them outta the park, you score a lot of runs." - Bobby Valentine

Just some thoughts discovered in a life.