February 2012
19 posts
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“You can live a lifetime and,
at the end of it,
know more about other people...”
– Beryl Markham, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“The voice of caution knows nothing
of real joy.”
– Neale Donald Walsch, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
– Collette, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the...”
– Erica Jong, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“I have lost friends, some by death…others through sheer inability to cross...”
– Virginia Woolf, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“Create a word, your world. Alone.
Stand alone. Create…[that’s...”
– Anais Nin, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“I have accepted fear as part of life —
specifically the fear of...”
– Erica Jong, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“I am only one;
but still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
but still I can do...”
– Helen Keller, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“Spend the afternoon.
You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“Nobody can be exactly like me.
Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.”
– Tallulah Bankhead, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“How we remember,
what we remember,
and why we remember
form the most personal...”
– Christina Baldwin, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“What a lovely surprise to finally discover
how unlonely being alone can be.”
– Ellen Burstyn, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“The universe is made of stories,
not of atoms.”
– Muriel Rukeyser, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“It is never too late in fiction or in life —
to revise.”
– Nancy Thayer, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“A teacher is someone who leads you into the forest
and loses you there;...”
– Anonymous, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“It is a long baptism into the seas of human kind, my daughter. Better immersion...”
– Tillie Olsen, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“There are two kinds on stones,
as everyone knows,
one of which rolls.”
– Amelia Earhart, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“The secret of life is not to get rid of the butterflies
in your stomach, but to...”
– Author unknown, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“You can’t push a wave onto the shore
any faster than the ocean brings it...”
– Susan Strasberg, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
January 2012
31 posts
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“A pessimist sees only the dark side of clouds
and complains;
a philosopher see...”
– Anonymous, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“I have done more harm
by the falseness of trying to please
than by honesty of...”
– Jessamyn West, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.”
– Clair Booth Luce, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“It always comes back to the same necessity:
go deep enough and there is a...”
– May Sarton, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.”
– Virginia Satir, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“If not now, what then?
We all must live our lives
Always feeling
Always...”
– Tracy Chapman, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“When you leave familiar ground and
step off alone into a new place
there will...”
– Wendell Berry, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.”
– Carlos Casteneda, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“The tragedy of life
is not so much what men suffer,
but rather what they miss.”
– Thomas Carlyle, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“If given the chance to go back,
I would not take it.”
– Peter Matthiessen, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“Man is never so much a man as when
he is striving for what is beyond his grasp,...”
– James Ramsey Ullman, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“You can fool the whole world down the pathway of years,
And get pats on the...”
– Peter “Dale” Wimbrow Sr., and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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Reinventing the Wheel(chair) →
Kudos to my friend and innovative trailblazer, Tom Horton, on this NEPR piece “Reinventing the Wheel(chair)”, in which he speaks of how he and two other wheelchair users are blazing new trails in wheelchair mobility with their ICON WHEELCHAIR breakthrough design!!!
Please give a listen. Inspirational, needed and wicked cool!
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“If you do not the expect the unexpected
you will not find it,
for it is not to...”
– Heraclitus, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“The road of life twists and turns and
no two directions are ever the same.
Yet...”
– Don Williams, Jr., and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“Every action, every inaction, every word and
every silence leaves clear signs...”
– Hannah Nyala, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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Martin Luther King Jr. = Trailblazing Leadership →
In honor of Martin Luther King Day, I’m sharing this piece from Success Magazine, Profiles In Greatness: Martin Luther King, Jr. - Standing Up for Justice
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“An optimist may see a light where there is none,
but why must the pessimist...”
– Rene Descartes, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“Man’s mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original...”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“Future is not a noun, it’s a verb.”
– Bruce Sterling, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“Any useful statement about the future should appear to be ridiculous.”
– James Allen Dator, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“The future cannot help you unless
you are willing to listen through the...”
– Bob Johansen, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“There’s nothing I’m afraid of like scared people.”
– Robert Frost, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“Drink your sweat in this world.”
– Kenyon proverb, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“Intelligence becomes ours in the degree in which
we use it and accept...”
– John Dewey, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.”
– Earl Warren, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“If you have someone eating out of your hands, it is a good idea to count your...”
– Nigerian proverb, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“The biggest temptation is to settle for too little.”
– Unknown, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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New Year's Resolutions for Trailblazers
Flow with, not against, life.
Be who you really are in every relationship.
Follow your heart no matter what so you become a master at what you’re most passionate about.
Share the journey with those you love.
Serve others.
Be open to the possibilities life presents.
Take prudent risks.
Make no excuses for your actions.
Have the courage to stand alone.
Find the humor...
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“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.”
– Oliver Goldsmith, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel — in memory of my Dad who was a helluva guy
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“Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to...”
– Erica Jong, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel