“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did so. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

“It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.”

“Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”

“When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.”

You may know Mark Twain for some of his very popular books like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

He was a writer and also a humorist, satirist and lecturer.

Twain is known for his many " and often funny " quotes.

Damn Good...how many times you read this (I have been reading this quite often, by chance, on the net), it still seems relevant to your life..

5. Release yourself from entitlement.

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing.

Man, this one alone could change the lives of so many!!

As soon as I hear that word "entitlement"....the hairs on my arm are raised. Like nails on a bloody chalkboard.
I hear it a LOT here lately.

Wisdom in them there words.

Leave to someone who grew up in Missouri to give lessons on how to live your life. Proud he was from Missouri, the "Show Me" state. He knew how to live!