When I’m feeling frustrated or wound-up I like to to have a read of these and look forward to my next escapade, feel free to add more with your comments because they get me through my corporate nightmare – roll on May 2010!

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

“Not all those who wander are lost.” –J. R. R. Tolkien

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou

“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley

“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher Hershey

“People don’t take trips – trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.“  ~ David Carradine

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.“  ~ E.E. cummings

“It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.”  ~ Desiderius Erasmus

“You were born an original.  Don’t die a copy.”  ~ John Mason

“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.“  ~ Edmund Hillary

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”  ~ William Shakespeare

“A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.”  ~ John Powell

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” ~Pablo Picasso

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” ~ Seneca

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