quote of the day - the courage to succeed

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,

 and then leap in the dark to our success.   

~Henry David Thoreau

 

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quote of the day - a sweet responsibility

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran


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quote of the day - doing with a measure of darkness

"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."
- Carl Jung


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quote of the day - an act of forgiveness

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."

- Peter Ustinov


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quote of the day - the Indian knew

"The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing."
- Alexis de Tocqueville

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quote of the day - what is the beginning of knowledge

"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge."
- Thomas Carlyle

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quote of the day - when you love...

“When you love, love as if the person is a god, not less than that. Never love a woman as a woman and never love a man as a man.”
― Osho


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quote of the day - a test of people

"A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture."
-  Abraham Joshua Heschel

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quote of the day - the power of love

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
- Jimi Hendrix



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quote of the day - the way in life

"The way is not the sky.  The way is the heart."
- Buddha



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quote of the day - Faith is...

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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quote of the day - board with life?

“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.”
― Dale Carnegie


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quote of the day - how to never lose

“You never lose by loving, you lose by holding back.”
― Barbara De Angelis


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quote of the day - on becoming a person of value

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
― Albert Einstein


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quote of the day - finding your amazing view

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

- Edward Abbey 



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quote of the day - how to stay warm in winter

“Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.”
― Haruki Murakami


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quote of the day - who we become

“We become what we believe”
― Lolly Daskal


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quote of the day - on being absolutely ridiculous

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
- Marilyn Monroe


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quote of the day - the purpose of human communication

“The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.”
― M. Scott Peck


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quote of the day - our faith in humanity

“I know that our world is going through a very difficult time right now, but I will never lose my faith in humanity, and our incredible ability to overcome just about anything.”
― Yanni


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quote of the day - to be free

"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."
- Nelson Mandela


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quote of the day - how to live

"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live."
- Lin Yutang


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quote of the day - how your story will end

"I haven't a clue how my story will end, but that's all right.  When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, that's when you discover the starts."
- Nancy Willard


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quote of the day - the gift of a flower

“People give flowers as presents because flowers contain the true meaning of love. Anyone tries to possess a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower on a field, you will keep it forever, because the flower is part of the evening and the sunset and the smell of damp earth and the clouds on the horizon.”
― Paulo Coelho


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quote of the day - how to not get anywhere

“I feel sad for the people who I hear always plan, plan, plan the next day's event to occur. Life only stands still for them.”
― Ingrid Nkenlifack


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quote of the day - the art of a good traveler

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


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quote of the day - wild and beautiful forces

"There are beautiful and wild forces within us."
- Saint Francis


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quote of the day - where you can find joy

“There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and leaving it behind them when they go.”
― Frederick William Faber


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quote of the day - our choice

“The more adept we become at feeling love and gratitude for all life’s earthly learning experiences, the more quickly we are reminded that, whatever hardship may be placed before us, it is our choice always to return to a place of love and gratitude and to give thanks for all that still remains.”
― Molly Friedenfeld


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quote of the day - what growth of consciousness requires

“Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman


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quote of the day - your task

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi



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quote of the day - when a naked person offers you a shirt

“I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
― Maya Angelou


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quote of the day - the way to know life

"The way to know life is to love many things."
- Vincent Van Gough


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quote of the day - if you wish to be loved

"If you wish to be loved, love."
- Seneca


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quote of the day - seeing the world

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence


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quote of the day - expend energy loving

“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.”
― Helen Keller


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quote of the day - fewer come for the darkness

“Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky


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quote of the day - influence beyond calculation

“There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.”
― James E. Faust


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quote of the day - to those you have opened your heart

“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
― Charles Dickens


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quote of the day - how best to get to know someone

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
― Plato


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quote of the day - what wise men cherish

“A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.”
― Roald Dahl


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quote of the day - words of wisdom

“If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.”
― Napoleon Hill


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quote of the day - finding simplicity

“Out of clutter, find simplicity.”
― Albert Einstein


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quote of the day - your willingness

“It's not about what you're capable of, it's about what you are willing to endure.”
― Orrin Woodward


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quote of the day - how to find your way home

“If Light Is In Your Heart
You Will Find Your Way Home.”
― Rumi


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quote of the day - the 3 most powerful resources you have

“The 3 most powerful resources you have available to you : love, prayer and forgiveness.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.


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quote of the day - the art of letting go

“The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.”
― Rebecca Solnit


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quote of the day - when humans are most admirable

“I know most people want others to have good lives, and, when they understand the situation, they will do what they can to steer the world back toward kindness. This is when human beings, I believe, are most admirable.”
― Daoud Hari


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quote of the day - an invitation to brighten someone's day

“Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich


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quote of the day - when we are authentic

“When we are authentic, when we act out of presence and awareness, it also gives nourishment to the inner being of people around us.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten



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quote of the day - how pigs treat us

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
― Winston Churchill


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quote of the day - how you speak

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein


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quote of the day - what love is not

“Love is not the absence of logic
but logic examined and recalculated
heated and curved to fit
inside the contours of the heart”
― Tammara Webber


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quote of the day - the most important thing in a person

“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.”
― Audrey Hepburn


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quote of the day - the you that you never discovered

“Often romantic relationships fail because you are trying to get someone to fall in love with the YOU that you never discovered.”
― Shannon L. Alder


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quote of the day - yesterday's gone

“Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t “should’ve” done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!”
― Steve Maraboli


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quote of the day - a reason to buy new boots

“They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots.”
― Steven Tyler


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quote of the day - opening every door

“Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door.”
― Emily Dickinson


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quote of the day - if there were only joy

“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world”
― Helen Keller


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quote of the day - enabling integrity

“Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.”
― Jonathan Franzen


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quote of the day - expecting perfection

“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
― Donald Miller


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quote of the day - what should we do with our lives?

“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
― Kurt Vonnegut


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quote of the day - he who has a why

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche


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quote of the day - on the opinions of others

“Don't be held hostage by the opinion of others.”
― Laurie Buchanan


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quote of the day - kissing the earth

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh


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quote of the day - who makes changes

“The weak makes excuses, the strong makes changes.”
― Habeeb Akande


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quote of the day - the saddest words

“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.”
― Kurt Vonnegut


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quote of the day - Live to start

“Live to start your stupid ideas, and start to live a life without regret--a life filled with meaning, freedom, happiness, fun, authenticity, and influence.”
― Richie Norton


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quote of the day - Live to start your stupid ideas

“Live to start your stupid ideas, and start to live a life without regret--a life filled with meaning, freedom, happiness, fun, authenticity, and influence.”
― Richie Norton


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quote of the day - Live to start your stupid ideas

“Live to start your stupid ideas, and start to live a life without regret--a life filled with meaning, freedom, happiness, fun, authenticity, and influence.”
― Richie Norton


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quote of the day - live to start your stupid ideas

“Live to start your stupid ideas, and start to live a life without regret--a life filled with meaning, freedom, happiness, fun, authenticity, and influence.”
― Richie Norton


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quote of the day - strength in vulnerability

“To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.”
― Criss Jami


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quote of the day - judging others wishes

“You can not be the judge of another's wishes. If you love someone, you must believe that they know what is best for themselves.”
― Katherine Marsh

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quote of the day - the two hardest tests

“The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.”

― Paulo Coelho


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quote of the day - our own gifts

“Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief, in their own gifts.”
― Jean Vanier


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quote of the day - the supreme art of the teacher

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein


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quote of the day - what kind of people to seek out

“Stay away from conflictive, negative people that pull you down, because they contaminate your energy and impede your progress. Search for people who look at the world with optimism, that inspire you, make you happy and provide peace of mind.”
― Pablo


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quote of the day - easier on the emotions when

“It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.”
― Criss Jami


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quote of the day - how we act in the face of it

“Luthiel: I cannot change what will happen. I can only change how I act in the face of it.”
― Robert Fanney


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quote of the day - how to not feel hopeless

“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
― Barack Obama


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quote of the day - where imagination will get you

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein


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quote of the day - knowing when to let go

“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”
― Ann Landers

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quote of the day - incredible change happens when...

“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.”
― Steve Maraboli


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quote of the day - what letting go means

“Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”
― Deborah Reber 

 

 

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quote of the day - getting halfway there

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
― Theodore Roosevelt


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quote of the day - the solvent that sets you free

“Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free.”
― Shannon L. Alder

 

 

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quote of the day - why climb mountains

"Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world."

- unknown (but given to me by my daughter Brielle)



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quote of the day -

“The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.”
― C. JoyBell C.


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quote of the day - if you love somebody

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”
― Kahlil Gibran

 

 

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quote of the day - holding on, faithfully

“faith is the art of holding on to things in spite of your changing moods and circumstances.”
― C.S. Lewis

 

 

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quote of the day - our thirst for freedom

“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

 

 

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quote of the day - what we all deserve

“Don't we all deserve forgiveness? I hope we do; I believe we do. Forgiveness says as much about the character of the person bestowing it as the person receiving it. Learning to forgive may be the most difficult of human acts,and the closest thing to divinity, whatever you decide that is.”
― Justin Cronin

 

 

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quote of the day - what true love is

“True love is taking the risk that it won't be a happily-ever-after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, "I'm not afraid to believe in you.”
― Cara Lockwood


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quote of the day - letting go

“Pain will leave you, when you let go”
― Jeremy Aldana


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quote of the day - what remains with change

“Everything changes, but beauty remains.”
― Kelly Clarkson

 

 

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quote of the day - one of life's best lessons

“Her grandmother had once told her that one of life's best lessons was not being afraid to look foolish -- to just ask the question.”
― Melissa Senate

 

 

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quote of the day - nothing is more inspiring

“There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.”
― Cynthia Hand


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quote of the day - seeing the beauty

“Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself......”

― Paramahansa Yogananda

 

 

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quote of the day - without forgivness and love

"There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love."
- Bryant H. McGill


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quote of the day - the most important kind of freedom

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.” ―Jim Morrison     www.theinsearchofsite.com

quote of the day - what letting go gives

“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh


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quote of the day - for what Thy goodness sends

"For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

quote of the day - afford to trust

“Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.”
― Joseph J. Ellis


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quote of the day - doing with love

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa


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quote of the day - what home is

“For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
― Stephanie Perkins


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quote of the day - making an end to anger

“Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us.  Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on”

― Homer, The Iliad

 

 

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quote of the day - breaking through

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

 

 

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quote of the day - putting your shadows behind you

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”


― Walt Whitman

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quote of the day - what love can do

"Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food."


- CHARLES CALEB COLTON

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quote of the day - human business

“Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.”

- Dalai Lama


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quote of the day - the culmination of failures

“A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.”


― Gisela Richter


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quote of the day - central to the art of loving...

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”

― Bell Hooks

 

 

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quote of the day - the one thing that saves lives

“In a world full of commonplace tragedies, only one thing exists that truly has the power to save lives, and that is love.”

― Richelle E. Goodrich



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Quote of the day - the art of love is....

"The art of love is largely the art of persistence."

- Albert Ellis


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quote of the day - the real question is

“Do you have the talent?' is rarely the question. 'Do you have the guts to finish?' is the real question.”


― Orrin Woodward     www.theinsearchofsite.com

quote of the day - the twin sister of excellence

“Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.”


― Habeeb Akande

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quote of the day - a good life is when...

"A good life is when you smile often, dream big, laugh a lot and realize how blessed you are for what you have..."

-Unknown


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quote of the day - how to make a conviction worthwhile

"The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held."

- Jane Adams



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quote of the day - celebrate each one

“In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day - or to celebrate each special day.”


― Rasheed Ogunlaru

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quote of the day - sweet fruit

“Patience can be bitter but her fruit is always sweet.”

― Habeeb Akande

 

 

 

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quote of the day - how to leverage talent

“Talent is nothing without persistence.”


― Dean Crawford

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quote of the day - the keys

“Patience and persistence are the keys... The keys to unlock doors of success... With these two virtues, you grow in reasoning and experience.”


― Ogwo David Emenike

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quote of the day - be whatever you must

"All I can do is act according to my deepest instinct, and be whatever I must be - crazy or ribald or sad or compassionate or loving or indifferent.  That is all anybody can do."

- Katharine Butler Hathaway


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quote of the day - keep knocking

“Rain puts a hole in stone because of its constancy, not its force. Just keep knocking on doors until the right one opens”


― H. Joseph Gerber

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quote of the day - omnipotent qualities

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”


― Calvin Coolidge

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quote of the day - another word for giving up

“There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up.”


― Jefferson Smith     www.theinsearchofsite.com

quote of the day - act as if you were behind

“If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.”


― Lao Tzu

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quote of the day- the greatest gift

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

- Jim Valvano

 

 

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quote of the day - just do it

“Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it.”


― Steve Chandler     www.theinsearchofsite.com

quote of the day - do not sit still

“Do not sit still; start moving now. In the beginning, you may not go in the direction you want, but as long as you are moving, you are creating alternatives and possibilities.”


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quote of the day - perseverance vs obstinacy

“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.”


― Henry Ward Beecher

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quote of the day - what character consists of

“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”


― James A. Michener

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Road trip 2013 - searching for what makes Maine the way life should be

Log (late in posting) finishing up on the rest of my trip through Saturday morning!

• Picking up at the Lakewood Theater, and the watching the production of Self Help.  Wonderful old theater (that allows you to bring food and beverages to your seat :).  Self Help was very well written, although the lead male actor seemed to be a little out of sorts, stumbling on many lines.  Few in attendance, but early in the season.  Fun time never the less.
• Drove down to Farmington where I spent my last night on the road.
• Met my friends Leigh and Doug at their house for coffee.  Doug was off to the school he teaches at to assist with graduation ceremonies that morning.  Leigh and I went to a fantastic yoga studio called Source 365 Living Arts Center.  She teaches yoga at her farm house in a beautiful country setting.  Sara Mulvey is the instructor, and is amazing!
• After yoga, drove Leigh back home, then headed back to Portland to rest for the balance of the weekend, and to take care of some overdue chores. 
• So grateful to have had the opportunity to do this trip, to meet such wonderful people, to start my book project in earnest, to be living my dream.
• Namaste. :)

quote of the day - how to climb a mountain

“You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.”


― Tom Hiddleston

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quote of the day - on getting what you want

"You gotta believe."

- Tug McGraw (duing the NY  Mets miracle year, 1973)


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quote of the day - the best pharmacy

"The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system."

- Robert C. Peale, M.D.


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quote of the day - an important point

“If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.”


― Winston Churchill

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Road trip 2013 - searching for what makes Maine the way life should be

Log, early Friday evening

• Set my alarm at 7:00am to watch the semis of the French Open from my motel room in Jackman.  What, only the Tennis Channel is carrying it??  $%%$$%$$!!!!
• Found a sports bar in Skowhegan doing a google search.  Made it there by 11:00 when it opened and caught the 5th set of an epic match between the two great rivals - Nadal and Joker. 
• Okay, time to meet some people!
• Stopped in the Chamber of Commerce.  Met Corey.  Great guy who was receptive to my request for an interview.  He sent me to the Margaret Chase Smith library and to the Lakewood Theater to meet more people.
• At the library, I met Angela.  Very friendly woman who shared with me her perspectives on Maine.  She used to be Margaret's personal secretary until Margaret died.
• Next, the Lakewood Theater.  Beautiful location on the lake.  Oldest operating theater in the country (running non stop since 1901).  Interviewed Jerry (the owner).  He loves Maine simply because it is home - and especially Lakewood.
• Then back into town in Skowhegan.  Found a great bakery/coffee shop called "The Bankery", because the building used to be a bank.  Get it? :)  That's from where I type now. 
• Going to see "Self Help" at the Lakewood theater tonight.  So excited! A comedy and a theme that is right up my ally!

Road trip 2013 - searching for what makes Maine the way life should be

Log, Thursday night

• Travelled Rt 11 once again, this time from Millinocket down to Dover-Foxcroft
• Went into AW Gillman & Company Grist Mill.  Met the owner.  Very bitter man regarding the state of our state.  Very angry about government control and regulation, especially as it impacts the cost of power.  Thinks we should be putting up more hydro power dams along rivers in Maine to enable cheeper electricity costs.  Feels they shouldn't have to put electricity from local energy supplies like that back into the grid.  He gave me a lot of him time to talk about his agenda, but did not want me to interview him because he said he was not in a positive frame of mind.  True.
• Interviewed a couple people as they came out of the local Shop & Save.  Right, not Hannafords.  In northern Maine, I have seen many Shop & Save stores still.  Hmmm.
• Then stopped at the Historical Society of Dover-Foxcroft.  Lucky day!  The propieter was there, as was a guy who was born in 1930, and who used to work as a sports journalist in that very building when it was a news paper printing press house.  Great stories and observations from my interview with him (Lou).
• Then up to Greenville.  Interviewed Mike, the owner of a sporting outfitter store.  Really nice guy.  Then interviewed a young woman who makes fresh crapes at a road side stand.  I had one with goat cheese, spinnache and onion that was out of this world!  And I got her to interview for me. :)  She then refered me to Becky, who owns the art gallery just down the road.  Becky was awesome too, and so enthusiastic about life, my book, her world.
• Then up to Jackman
• My strategy here was to try to get some interviews this evening so that I could watch the French Open live tomorrow morning at 7:00 (Nadal vs Joker in the semis). Went to the grocery store.  No luck.  Went to an ATV dealer.  Talked to the owner.  He told me he is not a very good talker (and he sells stuff to people for a living) and didn't want to interview with me.  Then stopped at a house with a rafting company sign on it. Bingo - interviewed Jess, who is the business side of the business.  Her husband does the guiding.  Very good interview.  Then stopped at the school (at 4:20pm so well after school is out) and met the principle in the parking lot as she was leaving.  She invited me back at 6:00 when they would be holding the athletics banquet and awards night, and said maybe I could talk to the athletic director too.  So I went.  Amazing.  The graduating class of Forest Hills HS (the name of the Jackman HS) is comprised of ten (10) kids.  And this school had something big to celebrate tonight.  For the first time, they had brought home a boys class D state championship in basketball.  With a total school population of a little over 50 kids!!!  The school is so small, they are allowed to have 8th graders play on the HS varsity team.  Anyway, I watched the 2.5 hour long celebration, heard some fantastic stories about what some of these kids and teams have achieved, and ended up interviewing the principle and the athletic director after it was done.  I left feeling honored to be part of such a special night for this very close knit community.

Road trip 2013 - searching for what makes Maine the way life should be

Log, Thursday morning

• Went into downtown Millinocket yesterday evening.  So many store fronts empty, and run down looking.  Ghost town ish.  Went into the Appalachian Trail Cafe and met a couple hikers, but both from out of state. 
• Walked south down mainstreet and found an inn for AT through hikers.  Tried to find someone there to talk to but nobody was around.  As I walked away though I passed a guy on the sidewalk who was approaching a car that had just stoppped.  It was friends of his.  I stopped and waited for him to finish (because he seemed like the friendly type), and when he was done asked if I could talk to him.  He said sure!  Rick Lax.  Born and raised in Millinocket.  Working with his dad at his carpentry business.  Never gonna leave Millinocket.  It's home.
• Went for a run down a road that led to the Millinocket Airport (which has two runways).  Saw one small plane parked on the tarmack.
• Showered up.
• Went back into town and stopped for a beer at a relatively new bar/restaurant called Pelletier Loggers Family Restaurant.  Rick told me about this place.  The only new business in town I think.  Built about 3 years ago after a reality TV show did a story about loggers in Millinocket.  Met a guy at the bar who has through hiked the AT, and who now actually works for the AT.  He has also through hiked the Pacific Crest Trail.  The bar tender was a very friendly woman too.  She turned me on to a new beer from Vermont called Switchback Ale.  Also turned me on the a French Canadian dish called poutine.  French fries, gravy and mozzerella cheese.  Oooeeeyy goooeeyy yum.  Met the owner on my way out of the place.  He was sitting at the bar with customers.  Had had a few too many already.  Would have asked to interview him, but I don't want to do drunk interviews. (although that could be another book idea!)
• Back to my hotel to catch up on the French Open.  Watched Joker crush Haas and watched Nadal crush Wawrinka. 
• Finished synching up photos and interviews for the day.
• Bed!

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Log update, Wednesday around 4:00

• Arrived in Belfast around 5:00 yesterday evening to spend the night with my Dad, Mr Ed Hardy.  After a quick trip to the grocery store, and then a very welcome cold Heineken, we enjoyed a very tasty dinner at the Weathervane restaurant.  Lobster and Fajitas for dinner.  Oooooh Yeeaaaahhh.
• After dinner, we watched a Federer get smoked by Tsonga at the French Open.  Ouch Roger!
• I headed out early morning for my first stop today: Bangor.  Walked into this great bakery/cafe for some breakfast and met a woman named Terry enjoying her breakfast.  We got to talking, and she agreed to interview for me.  Found out she is between jobs, and between life situations - and so is couch surfing at friends houses.  Very interesting woman.
• Terry told me I had to talk to two other people in town - an artist named Brian Monahan, and Jim, the chancelor for the U-Maine system (who's office was across the street).  Went to Jim's office building (3rd floor) and unfortunately he was on his way out to a meeting in Augusta.  But had a nice conversation with the receptionist and got some more names of people to talk to.
• Then went to Brian's 2nd floor art studio on Main St.  What a great studio and vibe! Brian was fantastic to talk to. Great and very interesting life story to get to where and who he is today.  Bought a couple of his art pieces too that he sells across the street out of a hotel lobby.
• Then interviewed the manager of the hotel who sold me the art work!  His name is Paul.  We sat outside in the tree covered square outside the hotel.  What a beautiful day!
• Wow, great stuff.  Now up to Millinocket, but first a stop in Orono to check out the U-Maine campus (never been before - nor had I been to downtown Bangor, which is a very cool little city!
• Went into the visitor center at UMO and met Justin - the manager of the center.  He was great and was more than happy to interview for my book.
• From there, cruised up Rt 2 to go through Old Town before getting on I-95.  Noticed on the map that there is a Penobscot Indian reservation in Old Town.  In fact, it's on an island in the Penobscot River.  This is where I met a young man named Gabe, a true Penobscot, who works in their cultural center and teaches native indian language to kids growing up there.  Really, really nice guy who appreciates much about Maine.
• I am typing this now from my motel room in Millenocket.  Soon, will head into town and see who else I have the good fortune of meeting.  Ciao!

quote of the day - a thousand fibers connect us

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”


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Log, Tuesday afternoon around 3:00 EST.

• Woke up around 6:00 on my own, after a Words with Friends chime went off on my phone.
• Took some photos of the river in front of the back deck of my motel room.  Beautiful view in the morning sun!
• Went for a run down an ATV trail in Machias
• Packed up, took some photos of the trail, got breakfast to go, and hit the road from Machias to Southwest Harbor
• Beautiful sun out today!
• Past Hancock Pt (a Hardy family reunion spot a few years back)
• Memories driving toward Mt Desert Isl (driving past the airport where Nicole and I went up in a glider)
• Arrived in Southwest Harbor
• Talked to a guy selling seafood in a roadside truck.  Said this is the only place on the Island without an ordinance against this kind of business.  He did not want to be interviewed for fear of getting in trouble.
• Went down the road to the SW Harbor marina. 
• Talked to a woman (Lisa) making covers for boat bumpers.  She recommended I go upstairs to talk to the owner of the sail making shop. 
• Went upstairs.  The owner (I forget her name) referred me to interview Rufus, a young guy who was "her slave". :)  Anyway, Rufus interviewed with me, and had some very poignent remarks to make about Maine relative to whether or not it is in fact "the way life should be".  Very articulate and intelligent.
• Then met a guy and his daughter (or grandaughter) walk out of Hamilton Marine.  Asked him where he was from, and he said North Carolina.  I told him that he was disqualified from my book!  But he referred me to Jane, the manager of the marina.  He walked me down to her office on the dock and introduced me.
• Jane was a hoot!  She is from New Zealand, but lived also in the Carribbean with her mothner at times.  Now she lives in SW Harbor with her husband (who is from Holton) and loves it.  Jane introduced me to her dog, Marina. :)  Jane gave me a great interview and let me take a couple photos.  She showed me her husband's new motorcycle which was parked outside.  Said that it was a bone of contention though between them.  I won't say why here.
• Then drove into the main part of town.  Went into the library and interviewed three very friendly librarians!  And, they want me to come back to do a talk after the book has been published!
• Lunch in a great bakery next to the library.  Yummy sausage and pepper parm sandwich on Frocaccia bread.  Mmmmm. :)
• So 5 interviews done in SW Harbor. Great!
• Now to Ellsworth and Friend & Friend motorcycles shop. 
• Saw and interviewed Terry (who was in my motorcycle school in Bucksport).  Took a photo of him sitting on his 500cc Honday cafe racer.
• Then met and interviewed Lou (who Dad recommended I see).  Lou was also great.  And he introduced me to Cooper Friend (the 4th generation Friend to run this shop which started as a Ford dealership almost 100 years ago!)
• Now typing this blog in the Ellsworth Public Library.

quote of the day - what success is

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”


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Log, Monday night:

• Hit Main St after granolla bar and coffee in my motel room
• Went into a book store.  Stuffed with books everywhere (really).  The owner was the only one there.  Her name is Carole Heinlein.  Interesting woman.  Didn't want to be interviewed.  Not enough good to say about Maine.  Probably will move out of the state again at some point.  From Key West.  BUT, she did send me to a couple people who turned out to be great interviews.
• The first was Diane.  VP at Bank of Maine in Calais.  Walked into the bank, asked the teller if there was a Diane there.  They said she's in the back.  They rang her phone, told her Scott was here to talk to her and that Carole had sent me.  She said "send him in"! 
• The second was Vicki at the visitor center.  She was very careful to not mix work with business, and did not want her photo taken.  But she gave me a great interview.  Vicki then introduced me to Julie who is Director of the Calais Chamber of Commerce.  Super friendly and gave me the interview and photo.
• Satisfied with Calais, I headed to East Port.  Great town.  First met Chris, the owner of a boat supply and hardware store.  He got busy as soon as I introduced myself, so I told him I would be back.
• Then went into little consignment shop and visitor center.  Very nice woman there told me about the tides, island and Roosevelts idea for harnessing the tides for power.  Then she mentioned a real power generator went in recently and told me the company was right behind her store, and I should go watch the video.  I met Bob, who was busy but told me to come back in 15 minutes.
• In the 15 minutes, I wandered into a gallery and a woman was behind the desk painting.  Her name was Cynthia, and she gave me a nice interview and photo of her painting.
• Went back to ORPC and listened to Bob tell me all about hydro keneticks for about 45 minutes.  And I saw the video.  This guy was great to spend so much time with me.  But then he didn't want to be interviewed, although was great about letting me take a couple photos.  He recommended aI  call Susie Krist to get an interview!  She is PR for ORPC.  Anyway, through Bob's message about this hydro power technology and project, I learned something about Maine that I think I can include with his photo.  I learned that it was really a community effort, with community buy in, based on relationships and trust, built over time.  ORPC truly tood a stakeholder approach to this project.  And it has been a big success.
• Then went back to Chris and I got a great interview and picture from him finally!
• Then down to Machias.  Not very much luck for interviews here, but did get kind of a fun one from a Zumba instructor as she was setting up for her class!
• The dinner at Blue Bird, then here and now!

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Monday, June 3rd.  Log of thoughts.

• Just south of Long Lake, saw my first moose of  the trip.  Tried to back up and get it's photo while it was standing on the side of the rode.  By the time I got back to where it had been, it had ambled it's way just into the shadows of the woods.  Still got a photo, but hard to see!
• I arrived in Madawaska Saturday Evening. 
• Checked in at Martins Motel, and based on the recommendation of the woman who checked me in, went to Molly's for dinner. 
• There I met James, who was dining alone also, at the table next to mine.  I was very nervous to start talking to him, but I finally decided to go for it.  To break the ice, I asked him where the bridge was in town that takes you across the St John river to Edmundson, CA.  That was all it took to get him talking, and led to me getting a great interview with him while we ate dinner.
• Sunday morning, my alarm clock woke me up an hour earlier than I had wanted, because it had automatically reset to be in the Atlantic time zone.  It also was saying I was going to be paying international roaming charges on my phone.
• Went to the bridge and after talking to the straight faced customs official who told me it was okay if I walked halfway across the bridge to Canada. I did just that.
• Couldn't find people walking around on Main St, so I drove to a Walgreens store and stood outside the front door.  Got my second interview from Melissa.  Nice woman but no photo.  Then tried to get an older gentleman to talk to me, but he said he didn't have time because he was off to church.  Soon after the manager? came out and asked if she could help me.  I explained what I was doing and almost! got her to interview with me.  But being the true professional she is, she said she could not do it on company time.  I gave her my business card and asked her to send me her thoughts and photo via e-mail.  She seemed enthusiastic about it.
• Then went to Saint Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church to try to find some people.  Mass was about to start and I talked to the Father (Jaque) on the front steps just in time.  He was excited for me about my book project, and told me he'd make an announcement in the church that I would be outside after and looking to talk to people about helping me with my book.  So I sat through my first Catholic mass, and then interviewed 3 people after! Bernard, Tom, and James.  Tom had his two boys with him, who were excited to participate too!
• Feeling great about the flurry of e-mails, I set off to my next stop, Fort Kent.  On the way, had to stop at the little airport I had seen a sign for Saturday evening.  After winding my way up quite a few miles into the hills, there I found the airport on a plateau.  And there I met David, the airport manager/pilot/plane owner.  He was the only one there, and gave me a great interview.  As I was leaving, he commented about my Prius and said it was great I was using something that was easy on the environment.  I responded back saying it sure was saving me money on gas with all the miles I am putting on.  But then he emphasized that the real important thing was that I was reducing greenhouse gass emissions.  In that moment, I felt a little ashamed that I deflected his first comment about helping the environment.  I hadn't acknowledged him complement, partly out of fear that he was maybe being sarcastic about it and my car.  He was not.
• Made it into Fort Kent.  Got two interviews outside a restaurant (Susan and Melanie), and then one with a really nice guy (and park ranger) named Ronnie, who was cleaning up around the Fort Kent historical site.  Ronnie really emphasized the friendly community aspects of Fort Kent.  Said he had a son who lives in Cumberland and he and his wife are engineers.  They would like to live in Fort Kent, but no work there for them.  Fort Kent is a trade off between economic opportunity and quality of life.
• After Ronnie, I hit the road for Calais.  Went Rt 11.  Beautiful countryside!  Roling hills, vistas, lakes, farms, old barns, school busses sinking into the grass. :)
• Stopped in Portage.  Quite tiny town on Portage Lake.  Finally saw an older guy filling up his riding lawn mower at the local gas station.  So I approached him, said hi, and tried to engage with chit chat about his mower (I originally thought it was an ATV so I made a comment like "that looks like fun" - duh... :)  So after some small talk, I told him what I was doing with the book project and asked if he would talk to me about it.  He stood up straight, stopping what he was doing, looked me square in the eye, and said, "I hate Obama".  I should have ended it right there - but I couldn't! He kept talking (after I replied, "well, that isn't really what I wanted to talk about, I want to talk about Maine").  He went on to tell me about how he was a vietnam vet, was losing his toes one by one due to agent orange, that he went into the war supporting it, but later changed his mind and is now anti war.  He said the US can't control all these 'tribes' around the world.  He finally talked a little about Maine.  Said he was living in the only part of the state he could, because it is conservative.  The southern part of the state is liberal.  But even where he is has changed, not as great as it used to be.  He wished me luck with my book and went on his way.  I felt sad for him.
• The next guy that arrived at the gas station was Travis.  Really nice younger guy who was eager to help me with my book! 
• Hit the road again - satisfied that I had taken lots of great pics, and got a good number of quality interviews.
• Road through a tremendous T-storm.  Unbelievable sheets of water coming down.  Major wind gusts moving my car around.  Rain stops, the hail!  I ducked into some guys driveway near Holton to hide under his tree.  He was on his front porch talking on his phone when I asked if it was okay to pull into his driveway.  He yelled "what?"  I just rolled up my window and pulled in!  It was over in less than 5 minutes.
• Landed in Calais.  Went for a run along the river path.  Then dinner/beer at a great little pub called Karen's.  Karen is the owner, and she was the bar tender last night.  Originally from Canada, she told me she had laid sheet rock for the first 20 years living in Maine.  Then when the local diner went up for sale, her daughter said she should buy it.  Karen did buy it, the very next day!  Then when the space next to her diner went on the market, she bought that too!  Made that a pub.  Keeping the two separate.  She is a character, and very friendly and likeable.  Great bar tender.  No idea how she did sheet rock for 20 years.  Oh, and she told me she and her husband were doing sheet rock for the motel I am staying at now (The International), when he stepped on a loose floor joyce and fell 10 feet onto the basement  floor and broke his back.  He recovered!
• Now it is Tuesday morning, and time to talk to some more Calais people!

quote of the day - what comedy is

"Comedy is acting out optimism."

- Robin Williams


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quote of the day - turning around irretrievable defeats

“My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.”


- Bjorn Borg



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quote of the day - reading with cold feet

“My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul in the state of Maine.”


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quote of the day - helping us see

“Mamma says gratitude helps us to see what is there instead of what isn't.”


― Annette Bridges, The Gospel According to Mamma       www.theinsearchofsite.com

quote of the day - what we choose to ignore

"Nothing determines who we will become so much as those things we choose to ignore."

- Sandor Minab



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quote of the day - books are weapons

“Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.”


― Franklin D. Roosevelt

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quote of the day - just this once

“Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.”


― Clayton M. Christensen

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quote of the day - and dare again

“You must dare, and dare again, and then dare a little bit more, and go on daring.”


― Justin Cotillard

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quote of the day - what no words can utter

“Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.”


― William Shakespeare

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quote of the day - what a journey is like

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”

~ John Steinbeck



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quote of the day - a man on foot

“A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.”

~ Edward Abbey



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quote of the day - too much attention to weather

“In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.”


― Elizabeth Goudge     www.theinsearchofsite.com

quote of the day - a terrible truth, or a beautiful lie

“Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time.”


― Mira Grant     www.theinsearchofsite.com

quote of the day - your destination

“When you lost sight of your path, listen for the destination in your heart.”


― Katsura Hoshino

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quote of the day - the destination is...

“The journey is the destination.”


― Dan Eldon       www.theinsearchofsite.com

quote of the day - finding peace

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.  Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



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quote of the day - making and finding opportunities

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

- Francis Bacon



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quote of the day - where to begin

"Begin within."

- from a bumper sticker seen in Portland Maine on May 15th, 2013



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quote of the day - what experience is

“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”


― Ansel Adams

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quote of the day - starting peace

“Peace begins with a smile..”


― Mother Teresa

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quote of the day - certainty :)

"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."

- Aristotle



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quote of the day - if you believe

"If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill; if you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so."

- Shakti Gawain



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quote of the day - what tolerance is

“Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.”


― Timothy Keller

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quote of the day - he that covets

"He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much."

- Beaumont



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quote of the day - everyone you meet

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”


― Plato

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quote of the day - the masquerade of cynicism

“Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us.”


― Stephen Colbert

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quote of the day - to flesh and blood

"Present joys are more to flesh and blood than the dull prospect of a distant good."

- John Dryden



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quote of the day - the right time for kindness

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



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quote of the day - only that day

"Only that day dawns to which we are awake."

Henry David Thoreau



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quote of the day - evaporating your self-consciousness

"Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew."

- Dale Carnegie



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quote of the day - how to get 100 cookies

“The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.”


― Criss Jami

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quote of the day - on being inquisitive

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."

- Albert Einstein



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quote of the day - on success and failure, and what counts

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”


― Winston Churchill

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quote of the day - the best index to character

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”


― Abigail Van Buren

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quote of the day - how oportunities multiply

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized; they die when neglected.  Life is a long line of opportunities."

- John Wicker



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quote of the day - who success comes to

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau



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quote of the day - how we come to love

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."

- Sam Keen



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quote of the day - if you simply don't give up

"I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up.  Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things.  If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you."

- Harrison Ford



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quote of the day - life becomes easier when...

"Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got."

- Robert Brault



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quote of the day - why not die laughing?

“We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil. Serenity is contagious. If we smile at someone, he or she will smile back. And a smile costs nothing. We should plague everyone with joy. If we are to die in a minute, why not die happily, laughing?”


― Swami Satchidananda

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quote of the day - to those who said no to me

“I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I’m doing it myself.”

– Albert Einstein




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quote of the day - a way of standing off

"Humor is the healthy way of feeling 'distance' between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problems with perspective."

- Rollo May



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quote of the day - how your greatness is revealed

“Your greatness is revealed not by the lights that shine upon you, but by the light that shines within you.”


― Ray Davis

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quote of the day - what rose-colored glasses allows

“Sure my rose-colored glasses don't let me see the world for what it is NOW but what they allow is the chance to see what the world would look like if people cared enough to plant more roses”


― Matthew Goldfinger

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Quote of the Day - if you want to test for character

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

- Abraham Lincoln



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quote of the day - don't look back

“Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back.”


― Shannon L. Alder

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quote of the day - one touch

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."

- William Shakespeare



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quote of the day - dying for love

“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love."

- Mother Teresa



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quote of the day - but what if...

“Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?”


― Kurt Vonnegut       www.theinsearchofsite.com

quote of the day - when one door closes

"When one door closes another door opens, but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."

- Alexander Graham Bell




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quote of the day - conquering with love

“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”
― Mahatma Gandhi


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quote of the day - no longer forward or behind

"No longer forward or behind I look in hope or fear; but grateful, take the good I find, the best of now and here."

- John Greenleaf Whittier



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quote of the day - how we spend our lives

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."

- Annie Dillard



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quote of the day - a sincere form of respect

"One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say."

- Bryant H. McGill





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quote of the day - it comes soon enough

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."

- Albert Einstein



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quote of the day - taking our place among them

"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."

- Virginia Woolf



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quote of the day - patience is

“Patience is not passive waiting. Patience is active acceptance of the process required to attain your goals and dreams.”


― Ray Davis       www.theinsearchofsite.com

quote of the day - you need not wait

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”


― Anne Frank

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quote of the day - the real tragedy of life

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”


― Plato

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quote of the day - the affection you deserve

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

- Buddha



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quote of the day - underestimating your power

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a

listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all
of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

― Leo F. Buscaglia



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quote of the day - every compassionate act

“There is no small act of kindness.  Every compassionate act makes large the world.”

― Mary Anne Radmacher

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quote of the day - twinkling eyes

“The twinkling of an eye. That is the most wonderful expression. I've thought from time to time it was the best thing in life, that little incandescence you see in people when the charm of a thing strikes them, or the humor of it. 'The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart.' That's a fact.”


― Marilynne Robinson       www.theinsearchofsite.com

quote of the day - what meditation is

"Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet.  It is a way of entering the quiet that is already there."

- Deepak Chopra



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quote of the day - it depends on us

“Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.”


― Arundhati Roy

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quote of the day - your destiny

"Keep your thoughts positive, because your thoughts become your words.
Keep your words positive, because your words become your behavior.
Keep your behavior positive, because your behavior becomes your habits.
Keep your habits positive, because your habits become your values.
Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny."

- Mahatma Gandhi



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quote of the day - when others are oppressed

"No one is free when others are oppressed."

~Author Unknown


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quote of the day - what happens when you act

“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”


― Thomas Jefferson

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quote of the day - how to live a creative life

“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”


― Joseph Chilton Pearce

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quote of the day - closing your eyes, and leaping

"The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be. Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap."


- Mary Anne Radmacher



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quote of the day - the truest form of love

“The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.”


― Steve Hall

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quote of the day - the strange pull of what you love

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.  It will not lead you astray."

- Rumi



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quote of the day - more important than knowledge

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”


― Albert Einstein

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quote of the day - life loving you

"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back."

- Arthur Rubinstein



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quote of the day - deadly sins

“Seven Deadly Sins




Wealth without work

Pleasure without conscience

Science without humanity

Knowledge without character

Politics without principle

Commerce without morality

Worship without sacrifice.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

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quote of the day - within man

"Adventure is not outside man; it is within."

- George Eliot





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quote of the day - a day wasted?

“A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.”


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quote of the day - what we have

“[Gratitude] turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity...it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”


― Melody Beattie

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quote of the day - the soul's duty

"It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires."

- Rebecca West



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quote of the day - believing, or not

“You can't know, you can only believe - or not.”


― C.S. Lewis

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quote of the day - keeping your commitment

"Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs."

- Alan Cohen



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quote of the day - only a sunny smile

“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”


― F. Scott Fitzgerald

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quote of the day - going blind

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”


― Mahatma Gandhi

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quote of the day - what to look with...

“But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart."


"(Mais les yeux sont aveugles. Il faut chercher avec le cœur.)"

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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quote of the day - when we are at play

“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.”


― Charles Schaefer

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quote of the day - if you get hurt...

“If you love and get hurt, love more.

If you love more and hurt more, love even more.
If you love even more and get hurt even more, love some more until it hurts no more...”

― William Shakespeare

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quote of the day - testimony of integrity

“Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.”


― Michel de Montaigne

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quote of the day - the first human quality

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”


― Aristotle

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quote of the day - once is enough

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

- Mae West       www.theinsearchofsite.com

quote of the day - if you think

"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."

- Henry Ford



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quote of the day - the most beautiful years

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”


― Sigmund Freud

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quote of the day - how promote world peace?

“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”


― Mother Teresa

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quote of the day - the ability to change

“What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.”


― Madeleine Albright

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quote of the day - a sign of suffering

“Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.”


― Alain de Botton

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quote of the day - how to take the right path

“Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.”


― M.H. McKee

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quote of the day - learning from chimps

“One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.”


― Jane Goodall

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quote of the day - kindness is a language...

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”


― Mark Twain

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quote of the day - another soul

“How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this. I need someone to pour myself into.”


― Sylvia Plath

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quote of the day - who gives you total freedom

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”


― Jim Morrison

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quote of the day - the required level to solve a problem

“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”


― Albert Einstein

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quote of the day - the most important virtue

“Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”


― Maya Angelou       www.theinsearchofsite.com

quote of the day - on being unstoppable

“Use what you've been through as fuel, believe in yourself and be unstoppable!”


― Yvonne Pierre       www.theinsearchofsite.com

quote of the day - to manifest affection...

“Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.”


― Isabel Allende       www.theinsearchofsite.com

quote of the day - don't sweat tomorrow...

“Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today.”


― Steve Maraboli     www.theinsearchofsite.com

quote of the day - the things I haven't done

“I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.”


― Lucille Ball

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quote of the day - want of opportunity

“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”


― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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quote of the day - mind feast

"An inproper mind is a perpetual feast."

- Logan Persall Smith



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quote of the day - the beginning of love

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”


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quote of the day - waiting on the right time

“Patience is power.


Patience is not an absence of action;

rather it is "timing"

it waits on the right time to act,

for the right principles

and in the right way.”

― Fulton J. Sheen

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quote of the day - what a good man should be...

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”


― Marcus Aurelius       www.theinsearchofsite.com

quote of the day - tiny matters

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”


― William Morrow

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