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'' when all is said and done there is nothing like a good beer and a hot tub''

-FL

"One more toast!"

-RN

"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be"

-Abraham Lincoln

"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

- Mark Twain

When once you have tasted flight

you will always walk the earth with

your eyes turned skyward; for there

you have been and there you will always be.

-Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519

"Experiences are best when shared"

-RN

"Were gonna grove"

-Robert Plant/Jimmy Page

Travel Light in Life

take only what you need

a loving family

good friends

simple pleasures

someone to love & someone to love you

enough to eat, enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink

for thirst is a dangerous thing!

-author unknown

"If you're bumming out,

you're not going to make it to the top.

[so..] we might as well make a point of grooving."

-Scott Fischer, prior to an assault on Mount Everest

"The song remains the same"

-Robert Plant/Jimmy Page

"It is not the critic that counts;

not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles.

Or where the doer of deeds could have done 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,

because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;

who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions;

who spends himself in a worthy cause;

who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement.

And at worst, 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."

- President Theodore Roosevelt, "The Man in the Arena", Paris, 1910

"The heights some men

have reached and kept.

Were not attained

in sudden flight.

For they, when

their companions slept.

Kept pushing onward

through the night."

-Sir Edmond Hillary on Mount Everest.

"Dream Big and Dare to Fail"

-Norman D. Vaughn

An elder Cherokee Native American was teaching his

grandchildren about life. He said to them, "A fight

is going on inside me...It is a terrible fight,

and it is between two wolves. One wolf represents

fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance,

self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies,

pride and superiority. The other wolf stands for joy,

peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility,

kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity,

truth, compassion, and faith. This same fight is going

on inside of you and every other person too."

They thought about it for a minute and then one child

asked his Grandfather, "Which wolf will win?" The old

Cherokee simply replied..."The one I feed."

- Author unknown

“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? (26) Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? (33) But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. (34) Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

- Matt. 6:25-27, 33, 34. NKJV

“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity and conservatism, all of which appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future -risks and contentment are resolutely intertwined"

-Chris McCandless aka Alexander Supertramp.

(From review of the book/movie "Into The Wild" -book by Jon Krakauer/movie by Sean Penn)

I Love Pelicans - when I see them I know I am near the sea -RN