I love this quote!

[Jane, Rooney & Stuart]

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chardonnay in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up - totally worn out and screaming "whoo hoo what a ride'!

 

What is your favorite quote or motto?

[Ricki and Tara (doodle)]

That's great!

[Sherri, Sophie, Winston, & Kitty]

love the last one. I love Eleanor Roosevelt!

[Anna and Achilles]

Karen I love all of the ones from Eleanor Roosevelt. I have heard them before but thanks for the reminder.

[Leslie J]

My fave:

" Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you are to live forever." ~ Gandhi

Oh, and as the parent of a teenager (with great hope...):

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.”

Mark Twain

[F, Calla & Luca]

It's better to ask forgiveness than to ask permission : )

[F, Calla & Luca]

Enjoy the lulls.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

I just saw this on a church billboard that I pass almost every day:

May your troubles be as short as your New Year's Resolutions!!

[F, Calla & Luca]

Cute!

[BG and Gavin]

"What you seem to be, be really."  Ben Franklin

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and I, I took the one less travelled by and that has made all the difference."  Robert Frost

My other favorite quote has to do with making decisions, but the language is a bit too colourful for the open forum ;)

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

"I shall be telling this with a sigh

 Somewhere ages and ages hence

 Two roads diverged in a wood and I -

 I took the one less travelled by,

 And that has made all the difference."

 

My DD's favorite poem, and one of mine. We recited it together at her Bat Mitzvah.

My first poetry book was Frost's Collected Poems, a gift from my uncle for my 8th grade graduation.

You've brought back so many good memories for me!

[BG and Gavin]

Karen, I have had a framed copy of this poem hanging on my wall for the past 25 years.  I look at it every day :) 

Here is my second favorite Frost Poem:

Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

 

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

[Elizabeth, Bailey & Bruin]

This one hangs on a tree at the dog park...So true!!!