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Last Wednesday Wisdom for September 2017

9/27/2017

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I've been taking a time-out this month, doing some relaxing, some traveling, shaking up the usual routine. In that spirit, I offer a selection of quotes about leisure, recreation and travel. I hope you'll take time out to enjoy them!
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The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite . . . a brief excursion from his way of life.
-- Robert  Morrison MacIver

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If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second. 
-- Edward Bellamy
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Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
-- Terry Pratchett, A Hatful of Sky
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Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.
-- Anita Desai
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What is this life if, full of care, 
We have no time to stand and stare.
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows...
-- William Henry Davies, "Leisure"
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In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius!
-- Mehmet Murat ildan
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Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.  Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.
-- Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
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The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is . . . 
-- Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
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Travel far enough, you meet yourself.
-- David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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10 Comments
Kathy link
9/27/2017 04:59:01 pm

Ooo, I liked all of those, good to remember.

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Nan
9/28/2017 04:40:43 pm

Ooo, thank you!

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Cindi
9/28/2017 02:58:11 pm

Great picks! A couple were particularly applicable to both Dale and me this year.
Wonderful to get away to see and experience new things, but always good to go home!

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Nan
9/28/2017 04:41:38 pm

Thanks, Cindi! I'm curious which ones you found applicable.

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Thea Heying link
9/28/2017 05:06:16 pm

I liked Maya Angelou's. A day without problems or solutions sought.

That's for me! Yup!

Gonna try tomorrow.

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Nan
9/30/2017 03:25:27 pm

Sometimes it helps to redefine "problems."

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Janet Glaser link
9/29/2017 10:20:40 am

Ah, I liked these bits of wisdom and great support for taking a vacation. I especially liked recreation is a close second. Indeed!!
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Nan
9/30/2017 03:26:05 pm

Yes!

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Susan Stec link
9/29/2017 04:44:41 pm

Ooooo. Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.
Yes. And somewhere, when you share it with others. :)

I need a vacation. Or even a walk in he woods.

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Nan
9/30/2017 03:27:15 pm

Yes, you do! I hope you find a way to get a break from stresses.

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