Thursday, August 26, 2010

Filler And Fluff

These are all listed in my sidebar, but since I'm short on post ideas this week and some people don't read the sidebars, I'm listing them again here. Some of my favorite quotes:

"Earth's crammed with heaven." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." ~ Helen Keller

"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." ~ Lao Tzu

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page." ~ St. Augustine

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." ~ Henry David Thoreau

"Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves." ~ Euripedes

"If you can't annoy someone, there's little point in writing."~ Kingsley Amis

"Only when the last tree has died & the last river has been poisoned & the last fish has been caught will we realize that we cannot eat money." ~ Cree Indian Prophecy

"Everyone sees what you appear to be, few touch what you are." ~ Machiavelli, The Prince

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." ~ Albert Einstein

"I need this wild life, this freedom." ~ Zane Grey

"Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam." ~ Goethe

"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 traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see." ~ G.K. Chesterton

"A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That's how I hold your voice." ~ Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live." ~ Flora Whittemore

"Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me - leading wherever I choose." ~ Walt Whitman

"Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along." ~ Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what this world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive." ~ Henri Matisse

"If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?" ~ Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"When love is not madness, it is not love." ~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca

"Only the dead fish swim with the stream all of the time." ~ Linda Ellerbee


~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
1 YEAR AGO:
Ghost Town
2 YEARS AGO:
Second Only To Feet
3 YEARS AGO:
I’ve Been Everywhere Sunday
4 YEARS AGO:
Heading South With One Wayward Goose
5 YEARS AGO:
Red Texas Sunrise

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