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Robin Tierney, Travel Writer

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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).

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

‎Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

– Booker T. Washington

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

– John Quincy Adams

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

– Jimi Hendrix

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

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Martha Beck

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

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”

– Voltaire

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”

– L.J. Smith

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

– William Butler Yeats

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

– Leonard Cohen

You may ask me for anything you like except time.”

– Napoleon

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

– Virginia Woolf

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”

– William Blake

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”

– Louisa May Alcott

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”

– Thomas Dunn

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”

– Diane Lane

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”

– Mae West

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

– Albert Einstein

Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”

– Anita Roddick

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

Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”

– Ted Leonsis

The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– Eckhart Tolle

A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”

– Carlos Castaneda

If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”

– Lisa Earle McLeod

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

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”

– Marcel Proust

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

– Eve Ensler

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

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”

– Andrew Carnegie

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler