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      The SELECT Small Valet box is NOW being offered in some stunning Spalted Tamarind and Rosewood variations. These woods are highly sought after and rather expensive. The Rosewood variations were actually made by laminating various pieces of Rosewood together, giving a truly one-of-a-kind, vibrantly stunning grain pattern. We hope you are able to get your hands on one as they typically sell quite fast. 

      The elegant Small Valet Box features sweetly rounded sides that accentuate the lovely grain of each wood species. While the hand-cut hardwood Wenge splines in the corners add beauty and strength. The interior of the lid is lined and the space within the box features a handmade ring roll and dividers, all of which are removable.

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      The SELECT Small Valet box is NOW being offered in some stunning Spalted Tamarind and Rosewood variations. These woods are highly sought after and rather expensive. The Rosewood variations were actually made by laminating various pieces of Rosewood together, giving a truly one-of-a-kind, vibrantly stunning grain pattern. We hope you are able to get your hands on one as they typically sell quite fast. 

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      The only people who can change the world are the ones who want to.
      The powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse. -Walt Whitman
      There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. Pursue those!
      There are no rules here. We are trying to accomplish something.
      There are two ways to live your life. One as though nothing is a miracle, the other as though everything is. -Albert Einstein
      There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone. -Jerry Garcia
      There is no set path. Follow your heart.
      The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. -Emerson
      The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
      The time for thinkers has come. -Mary Baker Eddy
      The time is always right to do what is right. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
      This is our moment. This is our time. -Barack Obama
      Those who wish to sing will always find a song. -Swedish proverb
      Those who wonder discover that this is, in itself, a wonder. -M.C. Escher
      To imagine is everything. To know is nothing at all. -Anatole France
      To thine own self be true. -Shakespeare
      Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. -Albert Einstein
      Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do, than by the things you did do. So sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails, explore, dream, discover. -Mark Twain
      Very little is needed to make a happy life, it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. -Marcus Aurelius
      Voyage upon life’s sea, to yourself be true, and whatever your lot in life may be, paddle your own canoe. -Sarah Bolton
      Walk tall as the trees, live strong as the mountains, keep the warmth of the sun in your heart.
      Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. -Roald Dahl
      We are the change we seek. -Barack Obama
      We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
      We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -Sir Winston Churchill
      We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. -Mother Teresa
      Why not go out on a limb? That’s where the fruit is. -Will Rogers
      What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
      What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. -Joseph Addison
      What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
      Whatever you are, be a good one. -Abe Lincoln
      Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now. -Goethe
      What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. -Ralph Marston
      When you come to a fork in the road…take it. -Yogi Berra
      Wisdom begins in wonder.
      Wisdom Courage Strength Love
      With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. -Eleanor Roosevelt
      Yes We Can!
      You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. -Michael Phelps
      You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself any direction you choose. -Dr. Seuss
      You miss 100% of the shots you never take. -Wayne Gretzky

      Humor

      A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where money used to be.
      A meowing cat catches no mice! -Yiddish proverb
      The best way to forget your troubles is to wear tight shoes.
      If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die, I want to go where they went. -Will Rogers, 1879-1935
      God made us sisters; Pharmacology made us friends.
      Golf is a good walk spoiled. -Mark Twain
      Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. -AA Milne
      I feel a sin coming on!
      If only we’d stop trying to be happy, we’d have a pretty good time. -Edith Wharton
      If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out. -Paul Gallico
      If we knew what we were doing, it would not be called Research. -Einstein
      If you’re going through hell, keep going! -Winston Churchill
      If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. -Katherine Hepburn
      If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. -Mark Twain
      Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
      Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. -Victor Borge
      Less is more…more or less.
      Life is just a tire swing. -Jimmy Buffet
      Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans. -John Lennon
      Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. -Erich Fromm
      Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
      Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. -Beethoven
      Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison
      Perhaps in my next life I’ll return as a seal and be forced to use all of me. Unless, of course, it’s not too late for this life!
      Well-behaved women seldom make history.
      When you come to a fork in the road…take it. -Yogi Berra
      When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on! -Thomas Jefferson
      You’ve gotta have balls…to change.

      Leadership

      Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. -William James
      A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, they will say, “We did it ourselves.” -Lao Tzu
      Carpe Diem
      Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -Howard Thurman.
      Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
      I may walk slowly, but I do not walk backwards. -Abe Lincoln
      In a gentle way, you can shake the world. -Mohandas Gandhi
      It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
      It isn’t where you come from, it’s where you’re going that counts. -Ella Fitzgerald
      Know yourself, do not let the world know you. -Nellie Bly
      Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. -Lord Chesterfield
      Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. -Theodore Roosevelt
      Of all the hazards, fear is the worst. -Sam Snead
      One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. -Leonardo da Vinci
      Remember always that you not only have a right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. -Eleanor Roosevelt
      You’ve gotta have balls…to change.

      Love & Marriage

      A good companion shortens the longest road. -Turkish proverb
      A joy shared is a joy doubled. -Goethe
      A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
      All you need is love.
      Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. -Helen Keller
      And just when I thought love had passed me by, we met.
      And the song, from beginning to end, I found in the heart of a friend. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
      Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.
      At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. -Plato
      The best way to hold a man is in your arms. -Mae West
      We have bikes to ride and people to love…now is the time!
      Can’t help falling in love with you!
      Follow your heart.
      Forever is composed of nows. -Emily Dickinson
      Go forth in life with love.
      The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.
      Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be. -Robert Browning
      Happiness is being married to your best friend.
      …Here’s to life, here’s to love, and here’s to you.
      I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine. -The Baal Shem Tov
      I love you always!
      I love you madly!
      I love you to the moon and back.
      I love you.
      If I know what love is, it is because of you. -Hesse
      If music be the food of love, play on.
      If you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only love. -Mother Teresa
      In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. -Marc Chagall
      It’s not what we have in our life, but who we have in our life that counts.
      Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same.
      It is in the shelter of each other that people live. -Irish proverb
      It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
      Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. -Victor Borge
      Let your love be like the misty rains: coming softly, but flooding the river. -Malagasy proverb
      Life is better with you.
      Live Laugh Love
      Love always, laugh often, dream together, share joy, forgive quickly
      Loved you then, love you still; always have, always will.
      Love is a choice–a willingness to to be present to others, without pretense.
      Love’s a game that two can play and both can win.
      Love is all you need! -Lennon/McCartney
      Love is friendship on fire.
      Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. -Erich Fromm
      Love is the poetry of the senses.
      Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
      Memories are the sweetest things there are.
      The minute I read my first love story, I started looking for you.
      The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart. -Helen Keller
      That love is all there is, is all we know of love. -Emily Dickinson
      The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. -Audrey Hepburn
      The greatest of these is love. -I Corinthians 13:1
      The heart that gives, gathers.
      The moment two hearts became one.
      The more I think, the more I feel there is nothing truly more artistic than to love people. -Vincent Van Gogh
      There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. Pursue those!
      There is no remedy for love but to love more. -Thoreau
      There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. -George Sand
      There’s nothing that I wouldn’t do to make you feel my love. -Bob Dylan
      The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. -Buddha
      They will see us waving from such great heights.
      Though we are two, we have one heart.
      To all the days here and after, may they be filled with fond memories, happiness and laughter!
      To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
      To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
      Together is a wonderful place to be.
      Truly Madly Deeply!
      Two human loves make one divine. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
      We love because it’s the only adventure. -Nikki Giovanni
      We will walk until my blood runs out. Until my heart is burnt, you are not alone. -Matisyahu
      Who, being loved, is poor? -Oscar Wilde
      Would it be alright to say that I hope as companions you exalt yourselves into two pieces of dust whirling around one another in the sunbeam that enters the last hidden place?
      You are my sunshine.
      You are the music. T.S. Eliot
      You are one of my nicest thoughts. -Georgia O’Keeffe
      You may light another’s candle from your own, without loss.
      You will find when you look back on your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. -Henry Drummond

      Music/Musicians

      Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tides. -Garth Brooks
      Everyone has a heaven inside. -Kate Bush
      It isn’t where you come from, it’s where you’re going that counts. -Ella Fitzgerald
      Knowledge speaks. Wisdom listens. -Jimi Hendrix
      Life is just a tire swing. -Jimmy Buffet
      Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans. -John Lennon
      Love is all you need! -Lennon/McCartney
      May God bless and keep you always, may your wishes all come true. May you always do for others and let others do for you. May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung, may you stay forever young. -Bob Dylan
      May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young. -Bob Dylan
      May your hands always be busy, may your feet always be swift. May you have a strong foundation when the winds of changes swift. May your heart always be joyful, may your songs always be sung. May you stay forever young. -Bob Dylan
      May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung. -Bob Dylan
      Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent. -Dr. Cornel West
      Never shall I forget the times I spent with you; continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. -Beethoven
      One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small. And the ones that mother gives you don’t do anything at all Go ask Alice, when she’s ten feet tall. -White Rabbit ~ Jefferson Airplane
      Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. -Beethoven
      Optimism is my best defense. -Rod Stewart
      Plant a seed of friendship. Reap a bouquet of happiness. -Louis Kaufman
      Take time to laugh, it is the music of the soul.
      There could never be a father that loved his daughter more than I love you. -Paul Simon
      There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone. -Jerry Garcia
      There’s nothing that I wouldn’t do to make you feel my love. -Bob Dylan
      You are the music. -T.S. Eliot

      Nature & Environment

      All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today.
      Be gentle with the earth.
      The best fertilizer is the shadow of the gardener. -Spanish proverb
      Choose only one master…nature. -Rembrandt
      Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tides. -Garth Brooks
      …Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves… -John Muir
      Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. -Robert Louis Stevenson
      Don’t let anyone or anything block your sunshine!
      Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, “Grow, grow.” -the Talmud
      Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet, and the winds long to play with your hair. Kahlil Gibran
      For me, a timber frame is poetry made manifest in wood. -Lou Ureneck
      God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees; and flowers; and clouds; and stars. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
      Great art picks up where nature ends. -Marc Chagall
      I have always loved the beach; the smell of the salty water, the wind in my face, the gentle roar of the waves, all combine to create a sense of peace and calm.
      I hope you always have a shell in your pocket and sand in your shoes.
      If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden. -Chinese proverb
      Keep close to nature’s heart…climb a mountain…spend a week in the woods, wash your spirit clean. -John Muir
      Let us be grateful to people who make us happy. They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
      Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air… -Ralph Waldo Emerson
      Make waves.
      Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. -Lao Tzu
      Our memories of the ocean will linger on long after our footprints in the sand are gone.
      Pursue a path, however narrow or crooked, on which you can walk with love and reverence. Henry David Thoreau
      The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. John Muir
      The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea. -Isak Dinesen
      The greatest oak was once a little nut that held its ground.
      The sea, once it cast its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. -Jacques Cousteau
      The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. -Kate Chopin
      The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy. -Henry Ward Beecher
      Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. -Buddha
      Walk tall as the trees, live strong as the mountains, keep the warmth of the sun in your heart.
      Where flowers bloom so does hope and love.
      Yeah, we all shine on, like the moon and the stars and the sun. -John Lennon
      You are my sunshine!
      You are my sun, my moon, and my stars. -e.e. Cummings

      Poets & Authors

      A friend is what the heart needs all the time. -Henry Van Dyke
      A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
      Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand. -Mark Twain
      A joy shared is a joy doubled. -Goethe
      And the song, from beginning to end, I found in the heart of a friend. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
      A teacher affects eternity; they can never know where their influence stops. -Henry Brooks Adams
      At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. -Plato
      All glory comes from daring to begin. -Eugene Ware
      Believe there are no limits but the sky. -Cervantes
      Brevity is the soul of wit. -Shakespeare
      But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. -Robert Frost
      Cherish yesterday. Dream tomorrow. Live today. -Richard Bach
      Dare to be remarkable. -Jane Gentry
      Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
      Do not wish to be anything other than what you are, and try to be that perfectly. -St. Francis de Sales
      Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -Howard Thurman
      Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. -Dr. Seuss
      Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. -Robert Louis Stevenson
      Dwell in possibility. -Emily Dickinson
      Forever is composed of now. -Emily Dickinson
      Forget not that the earth delights to feel our bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. -Kahlil Gibran
      For me, a timber frame is poetry made manifest in wood. -Lou Ureneck
      A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
      Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. -Thoreau
      Golf is a good walk spoiled. -Mark Twain
      Go on with a spirit that fears nothing. -Homer
      Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tunes without the words and never stops at all. -Emily Dickinson
      I am here to live aloud. -Emile Zola
      If I know what love is, it is because of you. -Hesse
      If only we’d stop trying to be happy, we’d have a pretty good time. -Edith Wharton
      If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out. -Paul Gallico
      If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. -Mark Twain
      If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. -William Arthur Ward.
      It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. -Antoine de Saint Exupery
      It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. -Thoreau
      Know yourself, do not let the world know you. -Nellie Bly
      Let nothing dim the light that shines from within. -Maya Angelou
      Let there be more joy and laughter in your living. -Eileen Caddy
      Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. -Rumi
      Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. -Rumi
      Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you truly love. -Rumi
      Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -Soren Kierkegaard
      Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me…Anything can happen, child. Anything can be. -Shel Silverstein
      As you move through life, leave a wake of kindness. -Margaret Hale
      Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink in the wild air… -Ralph Waldo Emerson
      Live your beliefs and you can turn your world around. -Thoreau
      Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. -Lord Chesterfield
      Never a ship sails out of the bay, but carries my heart as a stowaway. -Roselle Mercier Montgomery
      No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. -Aesop
      One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. -George Herbert
      Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. -Rumi
      Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. -Victor Hugo
      Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great. -Mark Twain
      That love is all there is, is all we know of love. -Emily Dickinson
      The family is one of nature’s masterpieces. -George Santayana
      The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change. -Maya Angelou
      The powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse. -Walt Whitman
      There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. -Edith Wharton
      The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. -Emerson
      The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. -Kate Chopin
      To imagine is everything. To know is nothing at all. -Anatole France
      To thine own self be true. -Shakespeare
      True happiness lies within you. -Og Mandino
      Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do, than by the things you did do. So sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails, explore, dream, discover. -Mark Twain
      Two human loves make one divine. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
      Voyage upon life’s sea, to yourself be true, and whatever your lot in life may be, paddle your own canoe. -Sarah Bolton
      We love because it’s the only true adventure. -Nikki Giovanni
      We must admit there will be music, despite everything. -Jack Gilbert
      We turn not older with years, but new every day. -Emily Dickinson
      What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? -Rousseau
      Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now. -Goethe
      Who, being loved, is poor? -Oscar Wilde
      You are the music. -T.S. Eliot
      You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself any direction you choose. -Dr. Seuss

      Sports

      Always a gator…
      We have bikes to ride and people to love…now is the time!

      Baseball

      How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were? -Satchel Paige
      Pitchers, like poets, are born, not made. -Cy Young
      Progress always involves risk; you can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. -Frederick Wilcox
      The trick is growing up without growing old. -Casey Stengel
      When you come to a fork in the road, take it. -Yogi Berra

      Golf

      Forget about your opponents, play against par. -Sam Snead
      Golf gives you insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponents. -Grantland Rice
      Golf is a good walk spoiled. -Mark Twain
      Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. -AA Milne
      If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out. -Paul Gallico
      Of all the hazards, fear is the worst. -Sam Snead
      The older you get, the stronger the wind gets, and it is always in your face. -Jack Nicklaus

      Hockey

      You miss 100% of the shots you never take. -Wayne Gretzky

      Swimming

      You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. -Michael Phelps

      Food/Cooking

      Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
      Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. -Beethoven

      Gardening

      All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today.
      The best fertilizer is the shadow of the gardener. -Spanish proverb
      The greatest oak was once a little nut that held its ground.
      If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden. -Chinese proverb
      Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
      Let us be grateful to people who make us happy. They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
      My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece. -Claude Monet

      Military

      Duty-Honor-Country; Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. -General Douglas MacArthur
      Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. -Ida B. Wells-Barnett

      Cats

      The dog may be wonderful prose, but the cat is poetry. -French proverb
      How we behave towards cats here below, determines our status in heaven. -Robert A. Heinlein

      Dogs

      If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die, I want to go where they went. -Will Rogers, 1879-1935
      Life is short. Play with your dog. -Pamela Haik

      General

      Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened. -Anatole France

      Police Officer

      Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. -Ida B. Wells-Barnett
      As you teach, you learn. -Jewish Proverb
      A teacher affects eternity; they can never know where their influence stops. -Henry Brooks Adams
      Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. -Japanese proverb
      What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. -Joseph Addison

      Birthday

      Cherish yesterday. Dream tomorrow. Live today. -Richard Bach
      Don’t grow up too quickly, lest you forget how much you love the beach. -Michelle Held
      How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were? -Satchel Paige
      It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
      It’s not how old you are, but how you are old. -Marie Dressler
      It’s not the years in the life, it’s the life in the years. -Abe Lincoln
      Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away.
      The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. -Frank Lloyd Wright
      May every sunrise hold more promise, and every sunset hold more peace.
      May you walk gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life. -Apache proverb
      May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door. -Irish blessing
      Memories are the sweetest things there are.
      Perhaps in my next life I’ll return as a seal and be forced to use all of me. Unless, of course, it’s not too late for this life!
      Same time next year.
      The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. -Frank Lloyd Wright
      The older you get, the stronger the wind gets, and it is always in your face. -Jack Nicklaus
      The powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse. -Walt Whitman
      The trick is growing up without growing old. -Casey Stengel
      We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
      We turn not older with years, but new everyday. -Emily Dickinson
      The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. -Frank Lloyd Wright

      Wisdom & Inspiration

      80% of success is showing up. -Woody Allen
      Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand. -Mark Twain
      Agere Sequiture Esse Action Follows Being
      All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within. -Horace Friess
      A man’s integrity is his greatest asset. Without it, he is nothing.
      A meowing cat catches no mice! -Yiddish proverb
      Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. -William James
      All glory comes from daring to begin. -Eugene Ware
      All of us get lost in the darkness; dreamers learn to steer by the stars. -Rush
      All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today.
      Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
      Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. -Helen Keller
      As I walk, I walk with beauty. -Navajo prayer
      As you move through life, leave a wake of kindness. -Margaret Hale
      A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. -Henrik Ibsen
      Attitude: a little thing that makes a big difference. -Winston Churchill
      Be courageous, have faith, go forward! -Thomas Edison
      Be gentle with the earth.
      Be kind to everyone you meet, each one carries a great burden.
      Be humble, for you are made of earth; be noble, for you are made of stars. -Serbian proverb
      Be the change you want to see in the world. -Gandhi
      Be who you are and may you be blessed in all that you are. -Torah
      Be who you really are and go the whole way. -Lao Tzu
      How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it.
      Behold this day. It is yours to make. -Black Elk
      Believe there are no limits but the sky. -Cervantes
      BELIEVE
      The best fertilizer is the shadow of the gardener. -Spanish proverb
      The best way out is always through. -Helen Keller
      The best way to forget your troubles is to wear tight shoes.
      The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
      We have bikes to ride and people to love…now is the time!
      Blessed is the life that finds joy in the journey.
      Brevity is the soul of wit. -Shakespeare
      Carpe Diem
      Challenge yourself.
      Cherish yesterday. Dream tomorrow. Live today. -Richard Bach
      Choose only one master…nature. -Rembrandt
      Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tides. -Garth Brooks
      …Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves… -John Muir
      Creativity takes Courage. -Henry Matisse
      Life isn’t about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain.
      A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. -Oscar Wilde
      Dare to be extraordinary.
      Dare to be remarkable. -Jane Gentry
      Dare to Dream.
      Life is a daring adventure, or it is nothing.
      Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day!
      Do good. Be kind. Tell the truth.
      Do not be wise in words, be wise in deeds. -Jewish proverb
      Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
      Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
      Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. -St. Francis De Sales
      Do Something. (Something will happen.)
      Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -Howard Thurman.
      Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. -Dr. Seuss
      Don’t grow up too quickly, lest you forget how much you love the beach. -Michelle Held.
      Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. -Robert Louis Stevenson
      Don’t let your dreams be dreams.
      DREAM
      Dwell in possibility. -Emily Dickinson
      Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. -Robert F. Kennedy
      Eat good food. Be kind. Tell the truth.
      Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, “Grow, grow.” -the Talmud
      Every man is the architect of his fortune.
      Everyone has a heaven inside. -Kate Bush
      Everything is within walking distance if you have the time. -Steven Wright
      Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
      Feet. What do I need them for if I have wings to fly? -Frida Kahlo
      Follow your heart.
      For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. -Jeremiah 29:11
      For it is in giving that we receive. -St. Francis of Assisi
      Forever is composed of nows. -Emily Dickinson
      Forget about your opponents, play against par. -Sam Snead
      Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet, and the winds long to play with your hair. Kahlil Gibran
      The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt
      Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. -Native American proverb
      Give your children two things: one is roots, the other wings.
      Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. -Thoreau
      Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good. -Minor Myers, Jr.
      Go on with a spirit that fears nothing. -Homer
      God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. -Reinhold Niebuhr
      The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.
      Happiness is a way to travel, not a destination.
      Happiness is excitement that has found a settling-down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping about!
      Happiness is the best thing in the world. -the Tin Woodman
      Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. -Thomas Jefferson
      Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tunes without the words and never stops at all. -Emily Dickinson
      How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were? -Satchel Paige
      I am here to live aloud. -Emile Zola
      I believe in you!
      I do not want peace which passes understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. -Helen Keller
      I may walk slowly, but I do not walk backwards. -Abe Lincoln
      If only we’d stop trying to be happy, we’d have a pretty good time. -Edith Wharton
      If we knew what we were doing, it would not be called Research. -Einstein
      If you’re going through hell, keep going! -Winston Churchill
      If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. -William Arthur Ward.
      If you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only love. -Mother Teresa
      If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. -Katherine Hepburn
      If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. -Mark Twain
      If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it. -Jonathan Winters
      Illegitumus non carborundum
      Imagine all the people living life in peace. -John Lennon
      In a gentle way, you can shake the world. -Mohandas Gandhi
      In the end, it’s character.
      In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -Albert Einstein
      In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. -Albert Camus
      I can only draw what I see. -Claude Monet
      Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same.
      If you’re looking for a sign, this is it.
      It’s not how old you are, but how you are old. -Marie Dressler
      It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
      It is a tree of life for those who grasp it, and all who uphold it are blessed. Its ways are pleasant, and all paths are peace.
      It’s better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
      It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks. -Helen Keller
      It is in the shelter of each other that people live. -Irish proverb
      It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
      It isn’t where you come from, it’s where you’re going that counts. -Ella Fitzgerald
      It’s kind of fun to do the impossible. -Walt Disney
      While they were saying among themselves, “It cannot be done,” it was done. -Helen Keller
      It’s not what we have in our life, but who we have in our life that counts.
      It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. -Thoreau
      Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.
      Just when you get used to yesterday, along comes today!
      Keep close to nature’s heart…climb a mountain…spend a week in the woods, wash your spirit clean. -John Muir
      Know yourself, do not let the world know you. -Nellie Bly
      Knowledge is love and light and vision. -Helen Keller
      Knowledge speaks. Wisdom listens. -Jimi Hendrix
      Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. -Victor Borge
      Leap and the net will appear.
      Less is more…more or less.
      Let nothing dim the light that shines from within. -Maya Angelou
      Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. -Rumi
      Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. -Rumi
      Let there be more joy and laughter in your living. -Eileen Caddy
      Let us be grateful to people who make us happy. They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
      Let us dare to read, think, speak and write. -John Adams
      Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you truly love. -Rumi
      Levitating on the power of God’s love, I soar above the pain and heartache now; Flying ever upward on the wings of faith, I see the world, and many worlds, and a new world. -Robert L. Meier
      Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -Soren Kierkegaard
      It’s not the years of life, it’s the life in the years. -Abe Lincoln
      Life is a challenge, meet it. -Sai Baba
      Life is a succession of lessons that must be lived to be understood. -Helen Keller
      Life is just a tire swing. -Jimmy Buffet
      Life is like a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back, if you smile, it returns the greeting.
      Life is like riding a bicycle: to keep your balance, you have to keep moving. -Albert Einstein
      Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away.
      Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans. -John Lennon
      Life isn’t about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself.
      Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me…Anything can happen, child. Anything can be. -Shel Silverstein
      Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. -Mohandas Gandhi
      Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air… -Ralph Waldo Emerson
      Live Laugh Love
      Live well, laugh often
      Live your beliefs and you can turn your world around. -Thoreau
      The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. -Frank Lloyd Wright
      Look for what you want to see.
      Lost time is never found again. -Benjamin Franklin
      Make waves.
      Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. -Lord Chesterfield
      May God bless and keep you always, may your wishes all come true. May you always do for others and let others do for you. May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung, may you stay forever young. -Bob Dylan
      May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young. -Bob Dylan
      May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door. -Irish blessing
      May your hands always be busy, may your feet always be swift. May you have a strong foundation when the winds of changes swift. May your heart always be joyful, may your songs always be sung. May you stay forever young. -Bob Dylan
      May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung. -Bob Dylan
      May your life be like a wildflower…growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day. – Native American proverb
      May you walk gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life. -Apache blessing
      Memories are the sweetest things there are.
      Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent. -Dr. Cornel West
      Never give up and never give in. -Hubert Humphrey
      Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. -Theodore Roosevelt
      Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love. -Mother Teresa
      Not all who wander are lost.
      Now voyager, sail thou forth to seek and find. -Walt Whitman
      Of all the hazards, fear is the worst. -Sam Snead
      One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. -Leonardo da Vinci
      One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay “in kind” somewhere else in life. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
      One who looks for a friend without faults will have none. -Hasidic saying
      Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. -Beethoven
      Optimism is my best defense. -Rod Stewart
      Our life is what our thoughts make it. -Marcus Aurelius
      Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. -Rumi
      Perhaps in my next life I’ll return as a seal and be forced to use all of me. Unless, of course, it’s not too late for this life!
      Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. -Victor Hugo
      Pitchers, like poets, are born, not made. -Cy Young
      Progress always involves risk; you can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. -Frederick Wilcox
      Pursue a path, however narrow or crooked, on which you can walk with love and reverence. Henry David Thoreau
      Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great. -Mark Twain
      Remember always that you not only have a right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. -Eleanor Roosevelt
      Remember what is important to you.
      Ride your dreams with courage.
      Set your goals believing.
      Smile, breathe, and go slowly. -Thich Nhat Hanh
      Speed is irrelevant if you are traveling in the wrong direction. -Mahatma Gandhi
      Take time to laugh, it is the music of the soul.
      The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea. -Isak Dinesen
      The golden opportunity you seek is within yourself. -Mary Engelbreit
      The greatest oak was once a little nut that held its ground.
      The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change. -Maya Angelou
      The more I think, the more I feel there is nothing truly more artistic than to love people. -Vincent Van Gogh
      The most beautiful discovery two friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. -Elizabeth Foley
      The most beautiful stones have been washed by the waters and polished to brilliance by life’s strongest storms.
      The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -Albert Einstein
      The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart. -Helen Keller
      The only constant in life is change.
      The only people who can change the world are the ones who want to.
      The person who succeeds is not the one who holds back, fearing failure, nor the one who never fails…but rather the one who moves on in spite of failure. -Theodore Roosevelt
      The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. -Eleanor Roosevelt
      There are no rules here. We are trying to accomplish something.
      There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. -Edith Wharton
      There is no set path. Follow your heart.
      The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. -Emerson
      The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
      Those who wish to sing will always find a song. -Swedish proverb
      Too much of a good thing can be wonderful. -Mae West
      True happiness lies within you. -Og Mandino
      Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. -Albert Einstein
      Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. -Lao Tzu
      Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. -Helen Keller
      No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. -Aesop
      Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. -Albert Einstein
      Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. -Albert Einstein
      Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. -Helen Keller
      Out of many we are one. That while we breathe, we hope. Yes We Can! -Barack Obama
      Very little is needed to make a happy life, it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. -Marcus Aurelius
      Walk tall as the trees, live strong as the mountains, keep the warmth of the sun in your heart.
      Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. -Roald Dahl
      We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
      Well-behaved women seldom make history.
      We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -Sir Winston Churchill
      We must admit there will be music, despite everything. -Jack Gilbert
      We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. -Mother Teresa
      Whatever it is, throw it out. -Muth
      What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. -Joseph Addison
      What’s life without a few bumps along the way?
      What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. -Ralph Marston
      When you come to a fork in the road…take it. -Yogi Berra
      When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on! -Thomas Jefferson
      Why not go out on a limb? That’s where the fruit is. -Will Rogers
      With money in your pocket you are wise, you are handsome, and you sing well too. -Jewish proverb.
      With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. -Eleanor Roosevelt
      Plant a seed of friendship. Reap a bouquet of happiness. -Louis Kaufman
      Presence is more than just being there. -Malcolm S. Forbes
      The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears. -Native American proverb
      Remember what is important to you.
      Ride your dreams with courage.
      Set your goals believing.
      Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you will land among the stars.
      The best journey always takes us home.
      The heart that gives, gathers.
      The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
      The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
      The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
      The older you get, the stronger the wind gets and it is always in your face. -Jack Nicklaus
      The powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse. -Walt Whitman
      There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. Pursue those!
      There are two ways to live your life. One as though nothing is a miracle, the other as though everything is. -Albert Einstein
      The reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen all at once. -Albert Einstein
      The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy. Henry Ward Beecher
      The time is always right to do what is right. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
      The time for thinkers has come. -Mary Baker Eddy
      The trick is growing up without growing old. -Casey Stengel
      The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. -Michelangelo
      The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. -Buddha
      This is our moment. This is our time. -Barack Obama
      Those who wish to sing will always find a song. -Swedish proverb
      Those who wonder discover that this is, in itself, a wonder. -M.C. Escher
      To imagine is everything. To know is nothing at all. -Anatole France
      To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. -Isaac Newton
      To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
      To thine own self be true. -Shakespeare
      True happiness lies within you. -Og Mandino
      Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do, than by the things you did do. So sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails, explore, dream, discover. -Mark Twain
      We are the change we seek. -Barack Obama
      What binds us together is greater than what drives us apart. -Barack Obama
      What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
      What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? -Rousseau
      What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
      Whatever you are, be a good one. -Abe Lincoln
      Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now. -Goethe
      Where flowers bloom so does hope and love.
      Wherever you go, go with all your heart. -Confucius
      Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. -Carl Jung
      Who, being loved, is poor? -Oscar Wilde
      The winds of grace are always blowing and it is up to us to raise the sails.
      Wisdom begins in wonder.
      Wisdom Courage Strength Love
      Yes We Can!
      You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. -Michael Phelps
      You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself any direction you choose. -Dr. Seuss
      You know of course that courage is always inside one. -The Cowardly Lion
      You may light another’s candle from your own, without loss.
      You miss 100% of the shots you never take. -Wayne Gretzky
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