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The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.Aaron Lauritsen
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Those who achieve the extraordinary are usually the most ordinary because they have nothing to prove to anybody. Be Humble.Aaron Lauritsen
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It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.Aaron Lauritsen
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Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days DriveAaron Lauritsen
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From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days DriveAaron Lauritsen
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True friends don't come with conditions.Aaron Lauritsen
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The high road of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.Aaron Lauritsen
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The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.Aaron Lauritsen
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Be a team player, not a bandwagon jumper.Aaron Lauritsen
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There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.Aaron Lauritsen
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The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.Aaron Lauritsen
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At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it.Aaron Lauritsen
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We love our partners for who they are, not for who they are not.Aaron Lauritsen
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Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond.Aaron Lauritsen
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Travel is costly yes, but it pays dividends too.Aaron Lauritsen
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If you didn't earn something, it's not worth flaunting.Aaron Lauritsen
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Without struggle, success has no value.Aaron Lauritsen
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There is no such thing as loving a child too much.Aaron Lauritsen
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It’s the ‘everyday’ experiences we encounter along the journey to who we wanna be that will define who we are when we get there.Aaron Lauritsen
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Successes are those highlights of life we look back on with a smile. But it's the day to day grind of getting them that defines the laugh lines etched until the end of time. Enjoy each moment along the wayAaron Lauritsen
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There's more to a person than flesh. Judge others by the sum of their soul and you'll see that beauty is a force of light that radiates from the inside out.Aaron Lauritsen
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Building bridges is the best defence against ignorance.Aaron Lauritsen
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I woke up early and took the first train to take me away from the city. The noise and all its people. I was alone on the train and had no idea where I was going, and that’s why I went there. Two hours later we arrived in a small town, one of those towns with one single coffee shop and where everyone knows each other’s name. I walked for a while until I found the water, the most peaceful place I know. There I sat and stayed the whole day, with nothing and everything on my mind, cleaning my head. Silence, I learned, is some times the most beautiful sound. .Charlotte Eriksson
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What is the universe but a lot of waves And a craving desire is a wave…Jack Kerouac
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…the weapon he used to transform the world was love.Brandan Roberston
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The moment we begin to believe we have got something about God figured out with certainty is the moment we can be sure we are no longer speaking about God.Brandan Roberston
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When we are able to systematise and theologise God down to a set of absolute theological principles, I believe that we lose something essential. When our faith becomes nothing more than a stagnant creed or unchanging statement of belief, we lose sight of the majesty and glory of God, the mystery and diversity that gives vibrancy to our faith.Brandan Roberston
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Wonder is the antidote to religion.Brandan Roberston
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But when we are willing to walk in the way of Love, to embody the light of Christ to everyone we encounter, we open ourselves to see and understand the journeys of so many other people…we not only honour the perspective and experience of our brother or sister, but we…learn and have our eyes opened to a new way of being. Because our big, wild and diverse God is at work in millions of systems, philosophies, cultures, religions and people beyond our own.Brandan Roberston
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But part of loving is sacrificing our ego's need to be right. Part of loving is realising that all of us are on the same journey, seeking the same things, but find ourselves at different places. When we are able to acknowledge and accept this reality; we are freed from the desire to force others into our systems, our beliefs and our points of view.Brandan Roberston
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…even if I discover that I don't particularly like or agree with them, I still can see that they are human beings, just like me. They are not an idea. They are not a concept. They are a real, living and breathing human being who is just trying to figure everything out, just like I am.Brandan Roberston
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So eventually, our mutual ignorance of each other's faith cancelled each other out and we found ourselves at a stalemate, a common ground beyond our misunderstandings, where we could begin a healthy and open dialogue about the similarities and differences between Christianity and Islam… but our face to face dialogues helped us begin to comprehend with some degree of clarity what the other group actually believed.Brandan Roberston
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How easy it is for us to demonise from a distance. But when we stand face to face with our supposed enemy, it is hard to hate.Brandan Roberston
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…Jesus spent more time eating, drinking and lounging with 'tax collectors and sinners' than explaining the Roman Roadmap to Heaven or undermining their belief system.Brandan Roberston
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What are we to do when we seem to grow out of God? Or at least the understanding of God that we grew up with?Brandan Roberston
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Allowing myself to wander off into the vast jungles of religion and spirituality has often led to me stumbling upon life altering new ways of thinking, living, and being.Brandan Roberston
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But it's only when we allow ourselves to get lost that we can have the opportunity to find and be found.Brandan Roberston
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…those who are the most confident are often those who don't have any fun.Brandan Roberston
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If they're not willing to explore beyond the realm of their safety, certainty, and comfort, they will never know if their fantasies are true.Brandan Roberston
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What if one's tendency to go wandering off is truly a gift? What if the driving force beneath the curiosity that leads a person to wander off the beaten path is not immaturity, but the wild, untamable Spirit of God, drawing them into the foliage to be refined, to discover fresh insights, and pioneer a new way forward for a new group of people?Brandan Roberston
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…for exploring beyond the boundaries that I had been taught to stay within.Brandan Roberston
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I have come to see that exploration is not a practice of the unfaithful, but rather is exactly what being a follower of Christ is actually all about.Brandan Roberston
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…because he was far more interested in allowing his disciples to cultivate a relationship and trust with and in him than leading them to a place of "arrival".Brandan Roberston
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We no longer find out identity or value in having the right theology or being a part of the right denomination.Brandan Roberston
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We no longer find our identity or value in having the right theology or being a part of the right denomination.Brandan Roberston
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Traveling light gives me a way to set down what would otherwise be the baggage of someone else' decision to cling to well-worn path.Brandan Roberston
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Traveling light gives me a way to set down what would otherwise be the baggage of someone else' decision to cling to a well-worn path.Brandan Robertson
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I had some terrific experiences in the wilderness since I wrote you last - overpowering, overwhelming, " he gushed to his friend Cornel Tengel. "But since then I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life. Everett RuessJon Krakauer
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Am I making something worth while? I’m not sure. I write and I sing and I hear words from time to time about my life and choices making ways, into other lives, other hearts, but am I making something worth while? I’m not sure. There was a boy last night who I never spoke to because I was too drunk and still shy, but mostly lonely, and I couldn’t find anything lightly to say, so I simply walked awaybut still wondered what he did with his lifebecause he didn’t even speak to meor look at mebut still made me wonder who he wasand I walked away asking Am I making something worth while? I am not sure. I am a complicated person with a simple lifeand I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me. .Charlotte Eriksson
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Live a Nomad Family lifestyle to broaden your horizon and create a more suitable lifestyle for your familyBrenda Brave
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I was running and deliberately lost my way. The world far off and nothing but my breath and the very next step and it’s like hypnosis. The feeling of conquering my own aliveness with no task but to keep going, making every way the right away and that’s a metaphor for everything.Charlotte Eriksson
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It's something rebellious about picking up and leaving buying a one way ticket and not knowing when you want to return.Turcois Ominek
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Freedom can choke you if you don't know how to handle it.Charlotte Eriksson
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The times on the open road with all the unknown ahead were the times I was happiest and most secure, with people who knew our core and lived solely for the purpose of unmediated experiences and love, from which purpose itself is born. Not the distant idea of life, love and purpose dirtied by constructs.Jackie Haze
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I copied the address into my address book, erasing an earlier one that had not been good for very long. No address of his was good for very long and the paper in my address book where his address is written is thin and soft from being erased so often.Lydia Davis
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I have always thought that people are, by nature, nomadic, but they’ve built up anti-human constructs to keep them in place and then they pop pills to mask their misery and look for ways to distract from their emptiness.Jackie Haze
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Well, at least this is what I told myself every day as I fell asleep with the fire still burning and the moon shining high up in the sky and my head spinning comforting from two bottles of wine, and I smiled with tears in my eyes because it was beautiful and so god damn sad and I did not know how to be one of those without the other.Charlotte Eriksson
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Born at Letterman Army Hospital. I never actually lived in San Francisco. It's not my home town, but then, I don't have one. I'm a nomad...a gypsy...an Army Brat. Put me on an airplane, send me anywhere. That's where I belong...anywhere.Marc Curtis
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If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us; why possessions exhaust us, and why Pascal's imaginary man found his comfortable lodgings a prison.Bruce Chatwin
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It’s just as hard to go back to a place you once left, as it is to leave it again.Charlotte Eriksson
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I am running and singing and when it’s raining I’m the only one left on the open street, smiling with my eyes fixed on the sky because it’s cleaning me. I’m the one on the other side of the party, hearing laughter and the emptying of bottles while I peacefully make my way to the river, a lonely road, following the smell of the ocean. I’m the one waking up at 4am to witness the sunrise, where the sky touches the sea, and I hold my elbows, grasping tight to whatever I’ve made of myself.Charlotte Eriksson
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Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project, " a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation.James C. Scott
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I lean back against the velvet-cushioned seat and close my eyes to the sound of hooves pounding hard against the cobblestone streets. Their clip-clopping harmony keeping perfect tempo with the rumble of carriage wheels, affording a sound as sweet as any symphony I've ever heard. It's the sound of escape The sound of goodbye A sound that's served to soothe me in the past, providing the much-needed assurance that the unwelcome inquiries and suspicions of newly alerted acquaintances would soon fade - allowing for a brief respite in a new location, before I'm on the move again. I'm a gypsy. A nomad. A vagabond. A drifter. .Alyson Noel