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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. 
Joseph Chilton Pearce

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, sailed an uncharted land or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Helen Keller.

An optimist is the personification of Spring.
Susan J. Bissonette

Remember that happiness is a way of travel not a destination.  
Roy M. Goodman

Seek justice, love mercy and walk humbly with your God.

Friendship is a sheltering tree. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. ~Flora Whittemore

                                                           
                                                             Live like you mean it.  ~ The Gilded Gypsies                                  

Different shades of life make the painting more beautiful.
                                                   ~Mike Dolan

 Bloom where you are planted.  ~Mother Jones

 Light tomorrow with today. 
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The brook would lose its song if you removed the rocks. We would lose our dreams if it weren't for the snags in life.














            A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.  ~Chinese Proverb

Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside. 

Close your eyes and see the beauty.

“There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her, When from every hill of flame She calls, and calls each vagabond by name.”     William Bliss

                       
You are a perishable item.
 Live accordingly.

Twenty years from now, you'll be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the things you did do.  Mark Twain.

Hitch your wagon to a star.         Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Don't put off your happy life.

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.  ~St. Augustine

 

That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet.
~Emily Dickinson

We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us.

 

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.  ~William  Shakespeare

What is it that you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?  Mary Oliver

We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair."
All these things have you said of beauty.  Kahlil Gibran

Wear gypsy bells to hear your soul ring.

Not all who wander are lost.     J.R.R. Tolkien 

"We are all wanderers on this earth. Our hearts are full of wonder, and our souls are deep with dreams."

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.  ~Henry David Thoreau

Radiant Sister of the Day, Awake! Arise! and come away!
Percy Bysshe Shelley

She walks in beauty like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies.  Lord Byron