Words of Wisdom

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as the sunshine into the trees. The wind will blow their freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves

- John Muir -

Words of Wisdom

Photographer: Shazeen Samad

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving

- Oliver Wendell Holmes -

Words of Wisdom

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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions

- Oliver Wendell Holmes -

Words of Wisdom

Photographer: Shazeen Samad

They may forget what you said, forget what you did,
but they will never forget how you made them feel

- Carl W. Buechner -

People

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may just never be enough;
Give the world the best you have anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it’s all between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

- Kent Keith -
The Handbook for Finding Personal Meaning and Deep Happiness In A Crazy World

Monday Morning Wave

Photographer: Elizabeth Pepin

I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try

- Ani DiFranco -

Monday Morning Wave

Photographer: Alex Laurel

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore

- André Gide -
novelist, symbolist, social surfer

Words of Wisdom

Believe me, the secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: To live dangerously! Build your cities under Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas!

- Nietzsche -

Words of Wisdom

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and

I took the one less travelled by,

And that has made all the difference

- The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, 1999 -

Words of Wisdom

Life does not consist mainly,

or even largely, of facts and happenings.

It consists mainly of the storm of thought

that is forever flowing through one's head

- Mark Twain -

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Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe

- Mark Victor Hansen -

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I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once.

I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work.

When I have eliminated the ways that will not work,

I will find the way that will work.

- Thomas Edison -

Words of Wisdom

Climber: Lucy Creamer

Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain.
Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life, facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities,
testing our resources against the unknown and in the process,
discovering our own unique potential.

- John Amatt -

Words of Wisdom

Photograher: Sara Schloo

All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.

- Arthur C. Clarke -