College basketball coach Jimmy Valvano gave this speech at the ESPY awards eight weeks before he died of cancer. It is one of my favorites and I watch it whenever I need a reminder about living fully every day. “To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should…
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I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. ~ Henry David Thoreau At sixteen years old, I checked out Thoreau’s book Walden at the library which, looking back seems like oddly heavy material for a teenage girl. I’m positive I did not read the entire…
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It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, encounter the grizz, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for awhile and contemplate the precious stillness, that lovely, mysterious and awesome space. ~Edward Abbey
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I think the people that inspire us most, are those that live in the moment and are able to bring our own dreams to the surface. I am inspired by my friend David today. He stopped by this morning, so we talked about life while I blended up my super clean green breakfast concoction. I’ve known David for about six years; he is one of my brother’s best friends from the Air Force Academy. David…
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When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
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