Returning Nomad

The adventures of an Australian-born girl with an "American" accent.

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So much of who we are is where we have been.

William Langewiesche

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And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.

Shanti

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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Lee Iacocca

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To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Brisbane Life Musing: Appreciating Technology

It’s so easy to take our technological world for granted, and forget that programs like Skype/Facetime didn’t even exist 13 yrs ago. And now I can talk to friends across the world anytime I want, for free, at the click of a button. When someone is waking up in the USA, I’m heading to bed, yet we can still talk as if we are in the same room. It’s something that I have come to appreciate more with living tens of thousands of miles away from many of my friends and family. And even though there is a great ocean in between I can still be thankful for the power of technology.

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Be determined to have a good day and you will.

Paige Dineen (from the TV show Scorpion)

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You have to see opportunity before you can seize it.

Greg Hickman

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You can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit.

Hugh Nibley

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So many fail because they don't get started; they don't go.

W. Clement Stone

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it; tomorrow is a new day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

George Eliot

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Ron Fraser, on heroes: “[T]here is still a small band of heroes and heroines who have vowed to their God to give over their lives to His great cause. They… - Joel Hilliker - Google+

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Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

Mary Kay Ash

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If you want to be happy, be.

Leo Tolstoy