Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson | |  |
 | | Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied. Arnold Glasgow |
Action is the antidote to despair.
Joan Baez | |  |
 | | There are no shortcuts to anyplace worth going. Beverly Sills |
Sometimes your best is not enough, you have to do what’s required.
Winston Churchill | |  |
 | | The human body is a machine, which winds its own springs. J.O. de la Mettrie |
| It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. Albert Einstein | |  |
 | | You’ve come too far in life to take orders from a cookie. Stephen P. Gullo
[Thin Tastes Better] |
| If God had wanted us to walk He’d have given us two legs and made us to stand erect. Anonymous | |  |
 | | I could have missed the pain, but I’d have had to miss the dance. Tony Arata
[The Dance—Sung by Garth Brooks |
The inspirational quotation below is often attributed to Goethe in its entirety. In fact, it was written by W. H. Murray in a 1951 book, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition. Murray closed his message with a couplet loosely translated from Goethe’s Faust.
Until one is committed
There is hesitancy, the chance to draw back,
Always ineffectiveness.
Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation),
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.
A whole stream of events issues from the decision
Raising in one's favor all manner
Of unforeseen incidents and meetings
And material assistance,
Which no man could have dreamt
Would have come his way.
William Hutchinson Murray | | 
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 | | Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Goethe |
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