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The Perfect Day
Going to bed with a dream, waking up with a purpose.
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Vagabonding and Travel Quotes
Dont take life too seriously…no one comes out alive – Elbert Hubbard
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving – Lao Tzu
He who knows that he has enough, will always have enough – Lao Tzu
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth. – Buddha
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. – Lao Tzu
We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope – Edward Abbey
My greatest skill has been to want little – Henry David Thoreau
Always do what you are afraid to do – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold. – Helen Keller
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller
We will not cease from our exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. – T.S. Elliot
Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits. – Pico Iyer
Not all those who wander are lost – JRR Tolkien
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will lead you there – Unknown
A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles. – Tim Cahill
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty & well preserved body; but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a ride!’ – Hunter S. Thompson
Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. – Miriam Beard
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste it, to experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. – Eleanor Roosevelt
All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not. – Rudyard Kipling
Wherever you go, go with all your heart. – Confucius
Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. – Paul Theroux
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – Aldous Huxley
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. – Rudyard Kipling
And forget not that the Earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. – Kahlil Gibran
Love is what we are born with
“Love is what we are born with.
Fear is what we learn.
The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudicies and the acceptance of love back in our hearts.
Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.
To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life.
Meaning dos not lie in things.
Meaning lies in us.” – Marianne Williamson
25 Change Quotes
1. “Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.” —Mairead Maguire
2. “God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it’s me.” —Unknown
3. “Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.” —Alan Alda
4. “Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.” —Pauline R. Kezer
5. “It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable—he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.” —Leo Tolstoy
6. “A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.” —Lester Thurow
7. “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” —Lao Tzu
8. “No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” —Oprah Winfrey
10. “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” —Alan Watts
11. “He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” —Harold Wilson
12. “The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.” —William H. Seward
13. ”A great wind is blowing and that gives you either imagination or a headache” —Catherine the Great
14. “No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.” —Barbara de Angelis
15. “The real problem for the creative person is getting over the resistance of those who don’t want to change.” —Unknown
16. “If we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame or anger – we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.” —Sharon Salzberg
17. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” —Barack Obama
18. “There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life’s solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.” —Stephen Nachmanovitch
19. “New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works … images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting.” —Peter Senge
20. “I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.” —Georg C. Lichtenberg
21. “The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” —M. Scott Peck
22. “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” —Epictetus
23. “We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.” —Anais Nin
24. “In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” —Eric Hoffer
25. “The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.” —James Baldwin
Gregor Mendel Quotes
My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work. – Gregor Mendel Quotes
The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted. – Gregor Mendel Quotes
Get Over It Quotes
My Mama always said you’ve got to put the past behind you before you can move on. – The Movie Forrest Gump
You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on. – Oprah Winfrey
Get mad, then get over it. – Colin Powell
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. – The Buddha
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. – Mohandas Gandhi
Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can’t change. Life’s too short to be anything… but happy. – Anonymous
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. – Hermann Hesse
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. – Joseph Campbell
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. – Helen Keller
So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don’t sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. – Lee Iacocca
Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember. – Anne Sullivan
You must do the things you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. – Eleanor Roosevelt
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. – Theodore Roosevelt
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. – Bob Newhart
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on. – Bill Cosby
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. – William James
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. – Lao Tzu
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. – Maya Angelou
Letting go doesn’t mean giving up… it means moving on. – Anonymous
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. – Helen Keller
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass… It’s about learning how to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can; And wisdom to know the difference. – Reinhold Niebuhr
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. – Walt Disney
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. – Theodore H. White
Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs. – Dick Raymond
How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Follow your Dreams Quotes
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First, say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do. – Epictetus
A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. – Marcus Aurelius
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. – Jean Paul Richter
Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source. – Publilius Syrus
Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful. – Benjamin Franklin
There is nothing like a dream to create the future. – Victor Hugo
Every man believes he has a greater possibility. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. – William Shakespeare
What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not. – St. Augustine
In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high. – Henry David Thoreau
To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise. – Frederick Schiller
It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past. – Karl von Clausewitz
We must dare to think “unthinkable” thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not fear the voice of dissent. – J. William Fulbright
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what may happen. – Herodotus
We are all of us made more graceful by the inward presence of what we believe to be a generous purpose; our actions move to a hidden music — ‘a melody that’s sweetly pitched in tune.’ – George Eliot
Great Inspiring Quotes
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. ~ Helen Keller
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. ~ Thomas Carlyle
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. ~ William Hazlitt
Death is more universal than life; Everyone dies but not everyone lives. ~ A. Sachs
Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best. ~ David O. McKay
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by what you bring to life. ~ John Homer Miller
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge one yourself. -James Anthony Froude
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. -Henry David Thoreau
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. -Horace Bushnell
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. – William James
Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe