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“Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore.”
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“Thanksgiving - fall's finale. Best damn holiday of the year in my worldly estimation.”
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“Take off my clothes and there becomes a man. Take off my skin and there becomes my bones. Break all my bones and there becomes my heart. Smash my heart and there becomes my soul. And that you cannot take.”
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“Sometimes I travel just to be overwhelmed – for it’s good every now and then to be overwhelmed.”
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“I travel for the great stories now ready tell, and those waiting to be told.”
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“I travel to know where I fit into the world, and where I don’t.”
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“As I see it, you GET married - but you MAKE a marriage.”
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“Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later.”
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“I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness.”
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“Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go.”
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“Starting the day—Another chance to be new again. How many of us still wish for that? To be your own sunrise. To awaken like a prayer—both solemn and joyful at still being alive . . .”
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“I travel to be replenished with beauty, for travel makes the beauty of this world seem like a Christmas that never ends. I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness . . .”
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“So How Much of a THING or THINGS is Enough? And if you have EVERYTHING, have you achieved perfect HAPPINESS?”
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“I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven't seen, how much I'm not going to see, and how much I still need to see.”
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“Be generous with your life - love deeply, honestly, and without reservation.”
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“Read what you like, not what you're told to like. That way you'll read for a lifetime.”
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“I travel because life is short, and I will not wait for fear of death or sanctuary to become a prison of my own making.”
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“It’s a fool who thinks having a kid is a right, which is the biggest crock of fish heads I’ve ever heard.”
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“There's so much to learn. So much to enjoy. So terribly much to be curious about. Take your life and run with it. Make a habit of being alive. This much of anything, I have learned. And am still learning.”
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“If you don’t know how to grow old, don’t start learning how to grow old.”
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“Wake up. Be thankful. For whatever happens on this day, you are endlessly given the chance to start again-to be alive. And all of us should wish for that.”
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“I travel not only for the passion and madness and desire of movement, but because travel, like bread and water and air, becomes necessary to a life fully dreamed and lived.”
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“What good is an “I LOVE YOU” If said only when you have to?
What good is it to ride a horse if you cannot gallop?
What good is it to believe in someone if you doubt your own belief?”
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“Your time is your time. Be awake to it. It's hard work to be wisely alive.”
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“Enjoy what you are learning and doing. This is one of the hardest concepts in the entire world to understand. Harder yet to put into practice.”
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“Be the same person- with or without money.”
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“No one OWES you a THING. So don’t EXPECT it. You’re on your OWN.”
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“I can FEEL her next to me. This UNION. Of WARMTH. Of CARING. Of the INDESCRIBABLE. As if there were NO PARTING and NEVER could be.”
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“Money-it can buy your kids anything, but it cannot teach them love, respect, and the true value of living life without things.”
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“Part of loving kids is laying down fencelines. They need to know immediately when they've crossed a line; otherwise the lesson doesn't get learned.”
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“Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself.”
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“So curious you must be. Like little calves poking their heads through the fence with big eyes and a headful of curiosity.”
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“What good is an “I love you” if said only when you have to?”
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“You haven't seen a thing until you've seen this man fight. My sword is sharp. My heart strong. My spirit ferocious - and I am going to live. Let the swords clash. Let the fight begin.”
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“Sometimes the best way is to get out of your own way.”
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“But more importantly in my book of life, it's what you can't buy with money that is often more important than what you can buy.”
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“As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live.”
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“Dream young. Don't settle for old - for to be old is to be superstitious and without curiosity and always questioning your faith. And be ferocious in your dreaming - run like a sun's explosion, and skip across bluing waves, and dance upon tips of swan feathers.”
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“Be the greatest of who you were meant to be. Life goes on ferociously-with or without you. It is your choice. Truly and magnificently your choice.”
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“Make doing your best a habit, and you’ll never know not doing your best.”
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“You become a man when you give your family the best of who you are.”
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“I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven't seen, how much I'm not going to see, and how much I still need to see."
- The Legacy Letters, by Carew Papritz”
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“Rain. Tumble, bumble and, fall on me. Any old day, any old way. Come for a visit, or come for a stay. Rain, rain, don't go away.”
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“Kids are kids and not little adults. They're watching and listening to you all the time. They're figuring out the game plan but still don't know all the rules. Talk straight to them and they'll respect you for it.”
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“Hunger
You are only here now, and then you are gone. So be hungry. Hunger toward beauty. Hunger toward love. Hunger towards the unimaginable and unthinkable.”
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“Dream Bravely.
Find fearlessness inside of you. Dare, and fear will falter. Challenge, and fear will flee. This is the beginning of your dream-making.”
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“I travel to be replenished with beauty, for travel makes the beauty of this world seem like a Christmas that never ends.”
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“In reality, Little Ones, there are two winters. One made for kids; the other for adults. The one made for adults is always too cold and always too long. The one made for kids is always perfect. A kid winter is an endless and wild snow carnival where all the rides are free.”
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“Sunrise - a time when all truths are still clean and enviable.”
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“Marriage is love put to it's ultimate test - the grindstone of life. Where the idealism of love meets the everydayness of marriage.”
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