Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do…
…so throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain
A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. – Moslih Eddin Saadi
The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began, Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say. – Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere but to go.
I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. – Robert Louis Stevenson
Earth’s crammed with heaven. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. – St. Augustine
Go far. Stay long. See deep.
And may the sun rise twice before you sleep.
– Unknown
Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God. – Kurt Vonnegut
Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined,
self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is,
not the way you imagine it. – Mark Jenkins
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Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. – Leo Tolstoy
And Joy is Everywhere; It is in the Earth’s green covering of grass; In the blue serenity of the Sky; In the reckless exuberance of Spring; In the severe abstinence of gray Winter; In the Living flesh that animates our bodily frame; In the perfect poise of the Human figure, noble and upright; In Living; In the exercise of all our powers; In the acquisition of Knowledge; in fighting evils… Joy is there Everywhere. – Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. – Anais Nin
There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone’s life.
– Sr. Mary Rose McGeady
Shared joy is a double joy -Swedish Proverb
To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. – Mark Twain
Find ecstasy in life;
the mere sense of living is joy enough.
– Emily Dickinson
Joy is not in things; it is in us. – Richard Wagner
Joy is the serenity of heaven. – John Donne
We cannot cure the world of sorrows,
but we can choose to live in joy. – Joseph Campbell
My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss – Sir Edward Dyer 1543 – 1607
When you do things from your soul,
you feel a river moving in you, a joy. – Rumi, 1207-1273
In time of care and sorrow, keep a
fountain of joy alive in you. – Dietrich Bonhoffer
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“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” – Nelson Mandela
“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
God is awake.” – Victor Hugo
“All happiness depends on courage and work.” – Honoré de Balzac
“Courage is found in unlikely places.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain
“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and
challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.” – Thomas Merton
“Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’ ‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage,
you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” ― Maya Angelou
“Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the conquest of it.” – William Danforth
“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal:
it is the courage to continue that counts.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” – Vincent van Gogh
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” ― Anaïs Nin
“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always
difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the
same courage that a soldier needs.
Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson