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Robin Tierney, Travel Writer

COLUMN = TRAVEL

About Robin Tierney

Robin is a full-time freelance writer who covers art and artists, health, cuisine, and the outdoors. When traveling, this avid (some say intrepid) cyclist looks for offbeat, intriguing places, inventive eco-friendly ventures, and hiking, biking, and water trails that provide communion with natural wonders.

Side projects have ranged from writing canine-care guides, veganized recipes, and mindful living tipsheets for nonprofit groups to building a near-net-zero Earth-friendly homestead by the ocean in Florida. Robin’s articles have appeared in regional and national newspapers; travel, business, and arts magazines; and other media (including very short works etched on sand, ice, and random signposts).

This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”

– Martha Beck

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”

– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

– Thomas Carlyle

The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”

– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion

Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”

– Martha Beck

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”

– Joseph Addison

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom

If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”

– Steven Schussler

It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.

– Carl von Clausewitz, On War

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”

– Gandi

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”

– Norwegian proverb

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

– Helen Keller

That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

– Mary Oliver

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.

– Avenida Margarita

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone

We never know how high we are
 till we are called to rise;
 And then, if we are true to plan,
 Our statures touch the skies.”

– Emily Dickinson

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
 A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

– Erica Jong

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”

– Chinese Proverb

Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”

– Andy Sernovitz

Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”

– W.E.B. Du Bois

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”

– Barack Obama

Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”

– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix

Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”

– Vin Diesel

Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

– William Jennings Bryan

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”

– Virginia Woolf

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”

– Langston Hughes

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”

– Ajahn Chah

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”

– Brian Tracy

Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”

– Carlos Castaneda

The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”

– Thomas Wolfe