Quotes – Journeys with Eileen Diane

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

Merry Christmas ~ Quotes

December 24, 2019December 23, 2019Journeys with EileenDiane

Wishing you and your family and friends a beautiful and very Merry Christmas. Let me share some favorite quotes for this glorious Holiday.

What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. Agnes M. Pahro

Christmas is the day that holds all time together. Alexander Smith

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day. Don’t clean it up too quickly. Andy Rooney

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood. Richard Paul Evans

May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve. Unknown

We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime. Laura Ingalls Wilder

Christmas waves a magic wand over the world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. Norman Vincent Peale

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection. Winston Churchill

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. Charles Dickens

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

Orcas Island, WA

Katmandu, Nepal

Japan

Great Smoky Natl Park, TN

Chamonix, France

Alaska, from train

Post Card~Sunset at Wat Arun

Venice, Italy

Paris

Palos Verdes, California

Oregon Coast

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Rockefeller Center

Central Park

Walk thru the Park

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Rome

Venice

The Sea ~ Quotes ~ Photos

November 12, 2019November 11, 2019Journeys with EileenDiane

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. ~ Kate Chopin

Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins. ~ Jennifer Donnelly

Don’t sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea. ~ Rumi

I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much. ~ Robin Lee Graham

As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife .~ Ivan Panin

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace. ~ Kate Chopin

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

Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, WA ~ Photos

August 27, 2019August 27, 2019Journeys with EileenDiane

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees. ~ Henry David Thoreau

This beautiful 700+ acre park has gorgeous woodland trails, gardens, spectacular waterfront views, a zoo and aquarium and a 5 mile drive making it easy to stop and explore. It’s especially gorgeous in summer, with the sun sparkling on the towering trees and the rippling water.

Walking about the Marina area, I was fortunate to see a seal pup north of Owen Beach. The seal was relaxing in the water and seemed to enjoy the attention of people walking by.

Along the Five Mile Drive, stop and check out the 450 year old Douglas fir (Mountaineers Tree) and be enchanted by the forest and the waterfront scenery. There is ample parking plus areas for picnics and numerous paths for hiking.

Savor your journeys … near and far ….

In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike. ~ Paulo Coelho

Travel ~ Favorite Quotes & Photos

July 1, 2019June 30, 2019Journeys with EileenDiane

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. John Steinbeck

I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it. Rosalia de Castro

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. John Steinbeck

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return. Leonardo da Vinci

Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love. Brian Chesky

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. T. S. Eliot

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. Saint Augustine

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. Hilaire Belloc

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. John Muir

Savor your journeys ….