Quotes – Page 12 – Journeys with Eileen Diane

Quotes ~ Italy ~ Photos

June 11, 2020June 10, 2020Journeys with EileenDiane

You may have the universe if I may have Italy. ~ Giuseppe Verdi

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. ~ Bertrand Russell

The Creator made Italy by designs from Michelangelo. ~ Mark Twain

Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life. ~ Anna Akhmatova

I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians. ~ Elton John

Venice, it’s temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. ~ Truman Capote

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Quotes ~ About the Ocean ~ Photos

June 8, 2020June 6, 2020Journeys with EileenDiane

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. Blaise Pascal

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Mahatma Gandhi

The ocean is a mighty harmonist. William Wordsworth

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. Arthur C. Clarke

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came. John F. Kennedy

Quotes ~ Cats ~ Photos

June 5, 2020June 6, 2020Journeys with EileenDiane

If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat. Mark Twain

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. Groucho Marx

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. Michel de Montaigne

In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you. Michel de Montaigne

Everything comes to those who wait… except a cat. Mario Andretti

The cat has complete emotional honesty – an attribute not often found in humans. Ernest Hemingway

Quotes ~ Isolation ~ Solitude ~ Favorite Photos

May 21, 2020May 21, 2020Journeys with EileenDiane

I have always loved solitude … however, solitude is very different from isolation, or a government mandated “stay home” order (no date for the commencement of phase 2 in western Washington). Thought I’d share some thought provoking quotes about isolation and solitude and also some favorite photos from recent journeys. And yes, I am planning my next road trip. For now, armchair travel will suffice.

Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits. bell hooks

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work. Haruki Murakami

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are. Salman Rushdie

The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation. Sukarno

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. Albert Einstein

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. Arthur Schopenhauer

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. Albert Einstein

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Francis Bacon

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. Aldous Huxley

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. Paul Tillich

Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions. Robert Fulghum

Savor your journeys… real, imagined or virtual .. near or far.

Some Favorite Quotes & Photos from Life’s Journey …

March 24, 2020March 24, 2020Journeys with EileenDiane

Life is too important to be taken seriously. Oscar Wilde

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard

It always seems impossible until it’s done. Nelson Mandela

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. Theodore Roosevelt

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. Elizabeth Kenny

Life is a question and how we live it is our answer. Gary Keller

Difficult and meaningful will always bring more satisfaction than easy and meaningless. Maxime Lagacé

Keep looking up… that’s the secret of life. Snoopy

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. Samuel Butler

Paris, France

St Malo, France

Palos Verdes, California

Oregon Coast

Great Smoky Natl Park, TN

Savor your journeys, near or far… real or imagined … past or future …

Happy New Year ~ Quotes

December 30, 2019December 30, 2019Journeys with EileenDiane

Wishing you and your family and friends a fabulous New Year ~ filled with love, laughter, terrific journeys and dreams come true!!

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.’ Alfred Lord Tennyson

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. Helen Keller

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. Ralph Waldo Emerson

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. Rainer Maria Rilke

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others. Diogenes

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source – a Sower of Dreams – just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true. Sarah Ban Breathnach

All of us every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all our lives. Steven Spielberg

If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone. Robert Fulghum

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. Anatole France

Palos Verdes, California

Afternoon break

Magical formations

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Delicious Desserts

Looking south to Palos Verdes Peninsula

Central Park

Entering Central Park

Venice

Gig Harbor, WA ~ Waning Days of Fall ~ Photos ~Quotes

December 2, 2019December 1, 2019Journeys with EileenDiane

“Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.” ~ Unknown

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.” ~ Emily Brontë

“Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.” ~ Victoria Erickson

“A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye.” ~ Unknown

“Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.” ~ Shira Tamir

“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale”—Lauren DeStefano

“November is the pearl-grey month, the changeling between warm crimson October and cold white December, the month when the leaves fall in slow drifting whirls, and the shapes of the trees are revealed, when the earth imperceptibly wakes, and stretches her bare limbs and displays her stubborn unconquerable strength before she settles uneasily into winter. November is secret and silent”—Alison Uttley

Mt Ranier

Travel ~ Quotes ~ Photos

November 24, 2019November 23, 2019Journeys with EileenDiane

Below are some favorite travel quotes and photos. I love photography as it is an excellent format to recall your journeys and the special people, places, cuisine, sights, etc, that you encountered.

Savor your journeys …

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. Lao Tzu

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. Confucius

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. Ernest Hemingway

“Not all those who wander are lost.” J.R.R. Tolkien

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” Anita Desai

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” Ursula K. Le Guin

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” anaïs nin

“Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.” Judith Thurman

“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.” Pascal Mercier

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” Ralph Waldo Emerson