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If you don't get out there and define yourself, you'll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others (Michelle Obama)

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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars (Norman Vincent Peale)

Charles Kingsford Smith

Charles Kingsford Smith was the greatest Australian aviator (possibly the best aviator in the world) and held more records than anyone else. Despite this, after his death in 1935, he was notably remembered in Australia (the Sydney airport is named after him) but not abroad. For instance, in 1998, the American writer Scott Berg wrote a six hundred page book on the history of aviation history – there was no single mention of Charles Kingsford Smith. Bill Bryson (in Down Under )

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you (Susan Sarandon)

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A Buddhist grace

Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash We venerate the Three Treasures (teachers, the wild, and friends) And are thankful for this meal The work of many people And the sharing of other forms of life. (In Gary Snyder's The Practice of the Wild )

Body-mind joy

Photo by Toomas Tartes on Unsplash The wilderness pilgrim's step-by-step breath-by-breath walk up a trail, into those snowfields, carrying all on the back, is so ancient a set of gestures as to bring a profound sense of body-mind joy. Gary Snyder (in The Practice of the Wild )