I just love books that are filled with thoughts and quotes of inspiration & I bought a new book while I was in Moscow on vacation and I just love it. I wanted to share these thoughts with you.

As long as we believe in these -

unbounded possibilities

horizons we have yet to greet

and friends that we have yet to meet,

in roads that we have yet to take

and differences we've yet to make

in songs still waiting to be sung -

Our hearts will stay young forever

& this one . .

As you journey through life,

choose your destinations well,

but do not hurry there.

You will arrive soon enough.

Wander the back roads

and forgotten paths,

keeping your destination

in your heart

like the fixed point of a compass.

Seek out new voices - strange sights & ideas.

Such things are riches for the soul . . .

And if upon arrival,

you find that your destination

is not exactly as you had dreamed,

do not be disappointed.

Think of all you would have missed

but for your journey there,

and know that the true worth

of your travels

lies not in where you come to be

at journey's end,

but in who you come to be along the way.

_ Linda Staten