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"All of life is a journey which paths we take, what we look back on, and what we look forward to is up to us. We determine our destination, what kind of road we will take to get there, and how happy we are when we get there.”

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." SΓΈren Kierkegaard

"The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn. -John Muir"

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking successive autumns." George Elliot

“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. ~Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.” (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ~Henry David Thoreau, 1854

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. ~Rachel Carson

“There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir, We must rise and follow her; When from every hill of flame, She calls and calls each vagabond by name”

There is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, As if it had not been! (Percy Bysshe Shelley)

"All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken." (Thomas Wolfe)

"Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will." (A.W.Tozer)

“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” (J.K.Rowling).