August 2009
16 posts
There is a joy in danger.
– Napoleon I of France.
All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
– John Masefield.
We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.
– Konrad Adenauer.
I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.
– Vincent van Gogh.
I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a...
– Maya Angelou.
I didn’t invent the rainy day, man. I just own the best umbrella.
– Jimmy Fallon as Dennis Hope in Almost Famous.
The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea.
– Karen Blixen.
The traveler with empty pockets will sing in the thief’s face.
– Juvenal.
Nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure...
– Christopher McCandless.
July 2009
59 posts
Long as you’re groovin’
There’s always a chance
Somebody...
– Marvin Gaye.
It is another of the miraculous things about mankind that there is no pain nor...
– Antoine de Saint Exupéry.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
– George Bernard Shaw
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice...
– Mahatma Gandhi.
Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.
– Ray Bradbury
Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with...
– Carl Sagan.
I must find a truth that is true for me.
– Søren Kierkegaard.
The light of love, the purity of grace,
The mind, the music breathing from her...
– Lord Byron
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
– Aesop.
We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
We ran to the sounds of thunder.
We...
– Robert Jordan
Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or...
– Winston Churchill.
When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the...
– Chief Aupumut.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
– Helen Keller.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
– Plato
I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.
– Frank O’Hara