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Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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This is to have succeeded (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden path or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The purpose of life is not to be happy...

In each pause I hear the call (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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I got the walking blues (Muddy Waters)

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west, and my spirit is crying for leaving (Led Zeppelin)

Heaven right here on earth (Van Halen)

Try to realise it's all within yourself (The Beatles)

Won't you shine shine on (The Kooks)

Just follow that strait old line (Split Enz)

It's hard to see where you're going sometimes (Greg Johnson)

Jump in time to the immediate future (Allen Ginsberg)

I listened and I heard music in a word (The Who)

To quote the divine Grace Slick (at Woodstock): It's a new dawn! Happy new year friends!

Virtue Mine Honour (Macleans College motto)

The only record of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Julius Caesar and the Roman Empire couldn't conquer the blue sky (Crowded House)

In the same spirit as the Emerson quote comes this piece of deep thinking from the Finns: Everywhere you go, you always take the weather with you.

There's a small boat made of china going nowhere on the mantelpiece (Crowded House)

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not - Ralph Waldo Emerson. I have often placed this quote on my bulletin board at home or an office. It's closely aligned to the earlier Buckaroo Banzai idea - wherever you go - there you are, and the next post - coming soon...