Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
-Helen Keller
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
-Charles R. Swindoll
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
-Abraham Lincoln
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-Abraham Lincoln
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of.
-Benjamin Franklin
Carpe Diem
-Latin for Seize the Day
Live what you love.
-Bob & Melinda Blanchard
Jump, and a net will appear.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
- Rumi
The greatest risk of all? Not taking one.
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
-Henry David Thoreau
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry that I couldn’t travel both
And be one traveler I stood
And looked as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
Then took the other one just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear
Though as far as the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step and trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence;
Two roads diverged in a woods, and I
I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference.”
–Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
“Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open roads
Healthy and free, the world before me.
The long brown path before me leading
wherever I choose.
Henceforth I ask not good fortune,
I myself am good fortune.
Henceforth I whimper no more,
Postpone no more, need clothing,
Done with indoor complaints, libraries,
querulous criticisms.
Strong and content I travel the open road.”
–Walt Whitman, from: Leaves of Grass
September 23, 2006 at 3:56 am
hi lisa! i logged on to read your blog for the first time! your adventures are so entertaining and hilarious to read about. i loved the story about the crazy man who wanted a room and wouldn’t go away. sounds like the world tour is off to a great and adventurous start….take care…Arlene Erves
September 23, 2006 at 2:19 pm
I’m forwarding your journal to all the special “Little People in my Life” ie. nieces in Austalia, children — because you are so inspiring!
Happy Birthday! You’re my Heroine! Safe Journey!
In Light ‘n Love,
Gina
September 25, 2006 at 3:23 pm
“If you don’t take a risk in life, you’ll never get anywhere.”
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
November 1, 2006 at 8:48 pm
“The univererse is a big place, perhaps the biggest.”
-Kilgore Trout
from “Venus on the Halfshell”
November 3, 2006 at 1:23 am
Lisa,
Who is Phileas Fogg? That amateur! You go girl! I am proud of you. Stars line up, I am hoping we somehow hook up Asia. Travel safe.
Loved the quotes! Especially…
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-Abraham Lincoln
You write so beautifully…. can’t wait for the next one.
November 3, 2006 at 1:25 am
Lisa,
Who is Phileas Fogg? That amateur! You go girl! I am proud of you. Stars line up, I am hoping we somehow hook up Asia. Travel safe.
Loved the quotes! Especially…
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-Abraham Lincoln
You write so beautifually…. can’t wait for the next one.
December 29, 2006 at 8:06 pm
you are a wonderful spirit Lisa.
Ray
December 17, 2007 at 10:44 am
“Whatever women do, they must do it twice as well as men to be thought of half as good….luckily, this is not difficult.” I saw it on a paperweight. -Deb from P.I.