"Joy and sorrow are inseparable...Together they come and when one sits alone with you...Remember that the other is asleep upon your bed".
-Khalil Gibran
"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you choose. But get drunk."
-Charles Baudelaire
"...in truth the real basis of Gertrude's nature was her capacity for deep emotion. Great joys came into her life, and also great sorrows. How could it be otherwise, with a temperament so avid of experience? Her ardent and magnetic personality drew the lives of others into hers and she passed along".
-Georgina Howell, "Daughter of the Desert"
"The scariest moment is always just before you start."
Stephen King
"Travelers are a different breed of people. They are musicians, artist, semi pro snowboarders and surfers. Writers, archery masters, and sometimes nudist? Getting robbed is nothing but an inconvenience or a reason to just stay put in a city for a while longer and injuries are simply conversation starters into a good story. Cliffs are there to be jumped off of. Your poor physical appearance is nothing a few beers and a dip in the pool can't fix. The sentence "I have a private room" is the sexiest thing a traveler can say to another. They run out of fires to dive into tidal waves. Know more languages then number of countries most have visited. (unless you are me who only communicates through English and dance.) Some people save their money to spend on a nice house, car, or their retirement. Travelers spend everything they have on experience, the now, the present. Sacrificing stability, possessions, relationships and financial security to invest in living, laughing, dancing, sweating, learning, searching, and discovering the world and themselves. A lot of travelers are considered unique in some way at home or others wild. So what a wild experience to get unique people from all over the world into one room where all of the sudden these individuals who are a different breed at home are now in a community of like minded people. The traveling world is a community of its own. A family away from family. Everyone and everything is accepted, and you are friends with everyone in the room by just walking through the door. Which is the hard part of travel. It isn't the cold showers or sleeping on uncomfortable beds in a room with 10 other people. The bug bites, lack of cleanliness, or crowded buses. It is when it comes time to say good bye to these people you meet. People who have loved you for just being yourself, inspired you to make happy decisions, shared an experience with you that no one else can quite understand without being there. I'm having a hard time saying bye to people that I know I may not ever see again... but happy that I was lucky to meet you."
-Anonymous
"Every writer I know has trouble writing."
-Joseph Heller
"I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them."
-Anne Rice
"The irony of commitment is that it's deeply liberating- in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life". - Anne Morris
"What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will become what gets you out of bed in the mornings, what you do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you. Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything". - Pedro Arrupe
"Look for a long time at what pleases you, and long still at what pains you". - Colette
"If we don't stand up for the children, then we don't stand for much". - Wright Edelman
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
Nelson Mandela
"I will mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
Martin Luther King
"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future."- Robert H. Schuller
"Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination." - Anonymous
"It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."- Theordore Roosevelt
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you never did, you should. These things are fun, and fun is good." - Dr. Seuss
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning to dance in the rain." - Vivian Greene
"Never, never, never, never give up." - Winston Churchill
“It's a troublesome world. All the people who're in it are troubled with troubles almost every minute. You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot, for the places and people you're lucky you're not.”
~ Dr. Seuss
"There is no use trying," said Alice; "one can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
-lewis carroll
"Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
- ralph waldo emerson
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I can only be who I am...The Diary of an International Superhero 
If you’re going to watch a movie anyway, may I recommend Cinema Paradiso. It’s like a love letter to the history of film and also a wonderful love story.
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Oh dude I FEEL YA. Been feeling that way all month to be honest. Like the grind is just pretty much the grind without meaning, wonder or purpose. But somehow I feel this way every February. Weird. Unfortunately I have nothing inspiring to say, as usual, except that this shit always passes. For me at least. Something usually pops up and steals my mind and heart for a few minutes. I frequently miss the awe and wonder of my former life in Spain and around – but I realize the wonder must come from some place within – some untapped inner resource – or I’d get just as BLAH in Borneo or Barcelona or traveling the world.
I think you’re wonderful.
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I DREAM about staying in bed to watch movies!!! Let yourself do it! Although it sounds like you might be overdoing it. Strange things happen during engagement…it’s an interesting time. I think you need a weekend trip!!!
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