Fun loving

"Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life." -Ian Fleming
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Self

"The first person you have to inspire every day is yourself." -Marc Parent
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Hope

"I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven." -Louis "Studs" Terkel
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Wild side

"I often wanted to be bolder than I was, and as I've got older it's bothered me less what people think ... I've been able to be much more outrageous, really." -author Alan Bennett
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The Bright Side

"Suffering, however, can be experienced as a curse or a blessing; the luckiest is the one who can experience it as a blessing." -Carolyn Forche
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Grow a Beard

What is your biological age? Click here.
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Like

"...and when the luck begins, it's like a wedding,
which is like love, which is like everything." -Alice Oswald
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Boston

"For Boston's not a capital,
And Boston's not a place;
Rather I think that Boston is
A sort of state of grace.
The people's lives in Boston
Are flowers blown in glass;
On Commonwealth, on Beacon,
They bow and speak and pass.
No man grows old in Boston,
No lady ever dies;
No youth is ever wicked,
No infant ever cries.
No orthodox Bostonian
Is lonely or dejected,
For everyone in Boston
With everyone's connected.
So intricate the pattern,
The barroom of the Ritz
Becomes a jigsaw puzzle
Each life a piece that fits."
-excerpt from "Boston is Like No Other Place in the World, Only More So," by E.B. White.
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Half full

Good advice from a professor...
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The Life

"I loved, I was loved, my health was good...I was happy and I confessed it to myself." -Giacomo Casanova
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Also: good NPR story here.

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Live Bravely

"I have as much freedom as I take." -Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal
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Not Exactly Promising...

"The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer ... Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repair but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you." -a recently discovered letter from Oscar Wilde to an aspiring writer.
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Stretch

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Change

"Well, that was life. Gladness and pain...hope and fear...and change. Always change! You could not help it. You had to let the old go and take the new to your heart...learn to love it and then let it go in turn. Spring, lovely as it was, must yield to summer and summer lose itself in autumn. -Anne of Ingleside.
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Free

"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is not reason not to follow your heart." -Steve Jobs


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Subtle

"We had a conversation years ago," [Sally] Jenkins says. "I asked Pat if she was a feminist. And she said, 'No, I'm not a sign carrier.' And I said, 'Well, I know what you are -- you're a subversive.' And she said, 'That's exactly right.' I think Pat took the concept of athletics that was used to define confidence and excellence for men, and stole it and gave it to women." -an NPR story about legendary Tennessee basketball coach Pat Summitt and her struggle with Alzheimer's.
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Perception

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." -Anais Nin
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Happy Place

Maybe this explains why we eloped in Napa?!

(Also, go Santa Fe -- No. 4 most happy city!). Read the full article from The Atlantic here.



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Be Where You Are

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