“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

Chock, Nepal

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.”

Tanahun, Nepal

“Live life so completely that when death comes to you like a thief in the night, there will be nothing left for him to steal.”

Cape Town, South Africa

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”

Cedarburg, Wisconsin

“No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.”

Parewadanda, Nepal

“Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.”

Parewadanda, Nepal

“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”

Kathmandu, Nepal

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”

Parewadanda, Nepal

“The color of truth is gray.”

Dublin, Ireland

"Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you'll find it there."

Pulimarang, Nepal

"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."

Chock, Nepal

Off to Nepal!

I'll be in Nepal until the end of the year, and then will be back to continue my blog :)

"One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore."

Off the coast of Greece

“Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.”

Chennai, India

"If the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction."

Barcelona, Spain

“Getting what you want is not nearly as important as giving what you have.”

Parewadanda, Nepal

"Change is the only constant."

Tuhure Pasal, Nepal

"Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there."

Oswiecim, Poland

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

Parewadanda, Nepal

"Be the change you wish to see in the world."

Istanbul, Turkey

"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way."

Barcelona, Spain

“You must give to get. You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.”

Missouri, USA

"Throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the tradewinds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Praia, Cape Verde

"Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold."

Kathmandu, Nepal

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.”

New Delhi, India

“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is knowledge of our own ignorance.”

Lamjung, Nepal

"Though the road you’re walking may be well traveled, that does not necessarily mean it is leading to your destination."

Bangkok, Thailand

“Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return."

Cape Town, South Africa

You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.”

Venice, Italy

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”

Parewadanda, Nepal

“Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous."

Suzhou, China

"Remember all things are possible for those who believe.”

Kathmandu, Nepal

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

Sagutar, Nepal

"Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours."

Venice, Italy

"Seek and you will find. Don’t be willing to accept an ordinary life."

Somewhere between 2,000 and 8,000 feet above 

Cape Town, South Africa

“Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are."

Parewadanda, Nepal

"Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid."

Barcelona, Spain

"The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."

Lamjung, Nepal

"The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in."

Cape Town, South Africa

“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.”

Suzhou, China

“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”

Lamjung, Nepal

"Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night."

Bandipur, Nepal

“Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”

Praia, Cape Verde

“There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.”

Gorkha, Nepal

"May you always find new roads to travel; new horizons to explore; new dreams to call your own."

Parewadanda, Nepal

“While we try to teach children all about life, children teach us what life is all about.”

Chiang Mai, Thailand

"There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures."

Shanghai, China

“We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.”

Cedarburg, Wisconsin

“Our thoughts create our reality -- where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.”

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

“For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it."

Lamjung, Nepal

“Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?”

Milwaukee, Wisconsin