Wise Words {+ Pretty Places}

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”

~C.S. Lewis

Maldives

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

New York

“For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.”

~Ivan Panin 

Peru

“One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.”

~Oscar Wilde

Switzerland

“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”

~Maxwell Maltz

Thailand

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”

~Galileo Galilei