"Old Lakota knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard."
-- Standing Bear

"...the earth belongs to each...generation during its course, fully and in its own right, no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence."
-- Thomas Jefferson, September 6, 1789

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do...so...Explore. Dream.
Discover."
-- Mark Twain

"It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst 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."
-- Teddy Roosevelt

"Far away, there in the sunshine, are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they may lead."
-- Louisa May Alcott

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."
-- Vernon Law

"I was passing rocks and trees like they were standing still".
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Only after the last tree has been cut down,
only after the last river has been poisoned,
only after the last fish has been caught,
only then will you find that money can not be eaten.
-- Cree Indian Prophecy

"Your work is to discover your work and then
with all your heart to give yourself to it."
-- Buddha

"Deep in my cells I know there's something bad at the end if I don't get through it. This keeps me honest. It keeps me scared. I am stronger because I know there is a consequence. I know I can't get away with slacking off. This is what happens when you ascend above mediocrity. It's a game. It's a test. It is the way I live my life."
-- Mark Twight, Ice Climber

"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again."
-- Stephen Grellet

"Unless we change direction,
we are likely to end up where we are going"
-- Chinese Proverb

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
-- Anne Frank, diary entry (1944)

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
-- Albert Einstein

"To strive, to seek, and not to yield."
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway."
-- Mignon McLaughlin

"A happy person is not a person
in a certain set of circumstances,
but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."
-- Hugh Downs

"Everywhere is within running distance....if you have the time."
Not Sure

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value."
-- Thomas Paine

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know, the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."
-- Albert Schweitzer

"Fear is excitement without the breath."
-- Fritz Perls

"There is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred....Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Do the thing and have the power."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Ten armchair theoreticians cannot match one doer"
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"The will to do, the soul to dare."
-- Sir Walter Scott

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Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Not Sure

"The timid folk beseech me, the wise ones warn me, They say that I shall never grow to stand so high. But I shall climb among hills of vanished lightning, And stand knee deep in thunder with my head against the sky."
-- Winifred Willes

"The road to excess leads to the place of wisdom, for we can never know what is enough until we have experienced too much."
-- William Blake

"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you are right."
-- Henry Ford

"A man's reach must exceed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?"
-- Robert Browning

"It never always gets worse."
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"The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well."
-- Pierre de Courbertin, founder of the modern Olympics

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep."
-- Robert Frost

"Nothing ever fatigues me, except that which I dislike."
-- Jane Austen

"Vincit qui patitur: he conquers, who endures"
-- Percy Wells Cerutty

"May the road rise up to greet you, and the wind always be at your back."
-- Irish proverb

"Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience"
-- Emerson

"Always look out for #1. Don't step in #2 either."
Not Sure

"Happiness is not getting what you want, but wanting what you have."
-- Rabbi Hyman Schachtel

"Roads go ever on and on
and I must follow if I can"
-- Tolkien

"Start slow, then taper."
Not Sure

"Caution: Dates on calendar are closer than they appear."
Not Sure

"I have met my hero, and he is me."
-- George Sheehan

The hardest things in life....
are the best things in life....
-- Kirk McKee

"Life is too important to be taken seriously."
-- Oscar Wilde

"It's not what's (who's )in front of you or what's (who's) behind you, it's what's inside of you."
Not Sure

"A stone is frozen music"
-- Pythagoras

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is a society where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.
-- Lord Byron

"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clode of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I can live, it is my privilege to do for it what ever i can.

"I want to be thoroughly used up when i die, for the harder i work, the more i live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no "brief candle" to me. It is a splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and i want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."
-- George Bernard Shaw from "Man and Superman"

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page."
--Saint Augustine

"You are not to do evil that good may come of it."
-- Legal maxim

My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night,
But ah my foes, and oh my friends,
It gives a lovely light.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Too bad that all the people who know
how to run the country are busy
driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns, quoted in Life

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
-- Douglas Adams

"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect."
-- Aldo Leopold

"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that."
-- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

"When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly."
-- Patrick Overton