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"Look closesly at the present you are constructing. It should look like the future you are dreaming." 

~ Alice Walker

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"Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life--and travel--leaves marks on you."

~ Anthony Bourdain

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“Instructions for living a life: 

Pay attention. 

Be astonished. 

Tell about it.” 

~ Mary Oliver

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“When people talk, listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out, know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling. Try that for practice.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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"Motherhood has a very humanizing effect.  Everything gets reduced to essentials."

~ Meryl Streep

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“If all you did was just looked for things to appreciate, you would live a joyously spectacular life.”

― Esther Abraham Hicks

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"My dream bench's handles are like mood rings and the rest of the bench is filled with encouraging words that would make anyone smile."

~ Eva Gugsa

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"So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world."

~ Vincent Van Gogh

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"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

~ E.E. Cummings

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"We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone."

~ Katie Thurmes

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"You make each day a special day by just being you."

~ Mister Rogers

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“My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved. I have been given much and I have given something in return. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”

— Oliver Sacks

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"The opposite of a hot mess is cold, predictable, and tidy. That's not where your magic lives. Be brave and choose the mess."

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

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"What I want to say is

that the past is the past,

and the present is what your life is,

and you are capable

of choosing what that will be,

darling citizen.

So come to the pond,

or the river of your imagination,

or the harbor of your longing,

and put your lips to the world.

And live

your life."

- Mary Oliver, Mornings at Blackwater

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  Cooking is like love;
  it should be entered into with
  abandon or not at all.
  -Harriet van Horne

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“Delight is rare for adults, though not for children. If you want to see what delight looks like, go by any schoolyard sometime when kids, little kids, kindergartners and first graders, come out for their recess break. They simply run around and shriek. Now that’s delight. This, the spontaneous response to the goodness and beauty of life.”

~ Ronald Rolheiser from the book, The Holy Longing

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"What would you do if you weren't afraid?

~ Sheryl Sandburg

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"Count my blessings like stars in the sky."

~ Bic Runga

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"Travel isn't always pretty.  It isn't always comfortable.  Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart.  But that's okay.  The journey changes you; it should change you.  It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind."

~ Anthony Bourdain

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“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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