I'm still in a holding pattern, waiting on a VISA. Got my medical done for another year, fit as a fiddle claims my doctor, but exact same weight/blood pressure/eyesight/etc. four years running, he's getting nervous Transport Canada will question if he's actually checking anything. I didn't tell him how hard I worked at getting my weight back to last year's! Resting pulse now 55, so the biking has been doing me good. Plus I got my dunker and dangerous goods and yearly 139 and Puma training signed off, I just need to get flying! I believe it's the longest stretch in over 30 years that I haven't flown a helicopter.
So with little to write about, I thought I'd share my collection of quotes. I find them from time to time in books and online and write them into a note, I'm not always sure who to credit, some are even mine. Thought I'd share some of the ones that caught my eye, in no particular order....
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness” - Mark Twain
If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans
“When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego,
and when we escape like squirrels from turning in the cages
of our personalities and get into the forest again,
we will shiver with cold and fright but things happen to us
so that we don’t know ourselves.
Cool, undying life will rush in…” - D.H. Lawrence
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw
If you can't see the bright side, polish the dull side
All of us could learn a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism
Don't worry about old age, it doesn't last long
Good health is merely the slowest possible way you can die
Life is sexually transmitted
“It’s impossible” said pride.
“It’s risky” said experience
“It’s pointless” said reason
“Give it a try” whispered the heart.
Bad decisions make good stories (I'm thinking that might be mine)
Help someone when they are in trouble and they will remember you when they are in trouble again
Out of Africa - watching Denys Finch Hatton in his Gipsy Moth biplane
"Where will he land?" Karen Blixen
"The trick is, not to" Her husband Bror Von Blixen
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." – Winston Churchill
Life is tough, but its tougher if you're stupid. - John Wayne
You don't know someone until you know what they want
You can't learn anything listening to your own voice
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? - George Carlin
To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world - Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
90% of statistics are made up on the spot
A lion doesn't concern itself about the opinion of the sheep
The man who has gone nowhere thinks his mother’s soup is the best.
Let’s deal with the world as it is, not as we would like it to be.
Who wants to live in a world where everyone thinks the same way?
Forget tomorrow morning. It doesn’t exist yet.
Life of a dog; if you can't eat it or fuck it, then piss on it
Limits, like fear, are often just an illusion - Micheal Jordon
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene
Dream as you will live forever, live as you will die today
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me
“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.”– Dennis P. Kimbro
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”– Lao Tzu
“If it isn’t a little scary it probably isn’t worth your time.” – Ted Murphy
“Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.” – C. S. Lewis
“Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, live truly and forgive quickly.” – Paulo Coelho
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West
“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
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