-- Edited by GENECOP on Thursday 25th of October 2012 04:17:28 PM
Terry and Jo said
07:27 PM Apr 28, 2012
Just for grins and giggles, I'm starting this thread because I ran across great words of wisdom on the website "Pbase" where a LOT of photographers post and share their photos. It is one of the best photo websites that I've ever found, especially for those that want to see what photos taken with a particular brand/model of camera look like. The photographers there range from outright amateurs to very professional ones.
Anyway, while I don't remember which photographer had it in his area of Pbase, it certainly applied as great knowledge for the RV'er as well as the photographer, many of us who are actually both.
Without further ado (and other nonsense), I now give you my contribution to what I hope is a LOT of similar quotes and knowledge from the RV Dreams participants. (Sorry, no prizes for the best.)
“Watching the clock is not the same as watching a sunrise.”
Terry
Cindy T said
09:07 PM Apr 28, 2012
Here are a couple that I like -
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. — Martin Buber
Cindy T
PIEERE said
12:22 AM Apr 29, 2012
Nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people. Samuel Clemens AKA: Mark Twain
Pieere
Technomadia said
03:11 AM Apr 29, 2012
'Home is not a place. It's whereever your passion takes you' - Sheridan, Babylon 5
crafter32034 said
11:43 AM Apr 29, 2012
"Thanks to the Interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything"
Charles Kuralt (sp?)
K & E said
02:57 PM Apr 29, 2012
Don't wish upon a star - reach for one!
Sushidog said
05:43 PM May 8, 2012
Sorry for the length, but worth it!
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost, The Road not Taken
Chip
jbarrett72 said
06:33 PM May 8, 2012
Chip.....That's my FAVORITE poem!!
Dog Folks said
09:01 PM May 8, 2012
Chip, The last three lines of that poem is our mantra. Funny, I studied that poem in high school 40 years ago and it has never left my heart. I think it explains well the full time lifestyle.
Ravenlotus said
07:04 AM May 14, 2012
This quote has helped me have hope of wonderful things that have manifested in my life. I thought I would never find a man who wanted to go full time on the road and raise family; while selling and performing at renaiseance festivals. But because of this quote which became my mantra it has happened. I acutually got this quote from my daughter's Barbie and The Three Musketeers movie.
"True courage is pursuing your dreams, even when everyone says it's impossible."
makntracks said
04:06 PM May 14, 2012
To live a life of Destiny we must leave our comfort zone. But far more ritches will be found on the road we all call home.
-Me
The Bear II said
09:50 AM May 16, 2012
Small House, Big Yard
My favorite.....
-- Edited by The Bear II on Wednesday 16th of May 2012 09:51:23 AM
Speedhitch said
01:56 PM May 18, 2012
Now that we are retired we never get lost...We just find new places we have never seen before.
Joe and Sherri
laurly said
05:17 PM May 18, 2012
Good thread, Terry. The one we like:
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - credited to Mark Twain
Gary said
01:37 PM May 19, 2012
laurly wrote:
Good thread, Terry. The one we like:
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - credited to Mark Twain
I was going to post that one! It is so true.
Jim01 said
03:38 PM May 19, 2012
Goals are dreams with deadlines.
Scubabeck said
04:40 PM Jun 11, 2012
Ahhh...to view mother nature in all her glory is a marvelous thing!
I say this every time I see a view (YNP, Badlands, WVA etc etc etc) I don't know where I picked it up from but it's kinda become my own little motto.
DebandDon said
05:30 PM Jun 11, 2012
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing" - Alexander Pope
Certainly describes me versus our motorhome over the past couple of years.
Don
Terry and Jo said
01:16 AM Jun 12, 2012
DebandDon wrote:
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing" - Alexander Pope
Certainly describes me versus our motorhome over the past couple of years.
Don
OK. I am slipping now. How did I miss welcoming you to the RV Dreams forums? I wonder if being 66 had anything to do with it.
Anyway, Deb and Don. Welcome to the RV Dreams forums as active participants. With each new participant, we all gain more knowledge....or a reminder of how little we do know when we hear the answers to questions. We look forward to your questions and comments.
Also, Alexander Pope's quotation would nearly fit me as well. Why nearly????
I also have another favorite quotation. "I know what I know and I know what I don't know, therefore, I DO know it all."
Terry
Alie and Jims Carrilite said
02:57 AM Jun 12, 2012
There are a bunch of Jimmy Buffet quotes but I won't bore ya'll right now...
"It's 5 O'clock somewhere"
3fortheroad said
04:25 AM Jun 13, 2012
What you think about, talk about, and get off your butt and do something about is what comes about.
Larry Winget
Lucky Mike said
11:10 PM Oct 23, 2012
My Travels about the greatest wonders of this world will only end when they remove me from the wheelhouse one last time!!!!!!
PS.......If your there that day. The title is signed in the glove box , Please continue the journey and dont forget to feed the dog!!!!!
Lucky Mike said
12:25 AM Oct 24, 2012
Coffee...(noun) A magical Substance that turns "Leave me alone or die!!"...into..." Good morning Honey!!"
Laura and Bunk said
12:34 AM Oct 24, 2012
My favorite "Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien: Not all those who wander are lost."
Bunk keeps asking me if I'm sure.....
My father was a wanderer, and I must take after him. That has been my signature line for a long long time.
charles said
12:40 AM Oct 24, 2012
We don't have a schedule and are sticking to it.
CCC
blijil said
09:15 PM Oct 25, 2012
Bumper sticker that made us smile.
"My lifestyle is a lot more fun than your vacation."
Larry and JB
Lucky Mike said
01:36 AM Oct 26, 2012
Smile like you've never cried.....Fight like you've never lost.....Love like you've never been hurt. And live like you will Die tomorrow!!!!!!
VanMar said
05:31 AM Oct 26, 2012
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher.
I think "fatal blunderer" is a bit harsh but I get the gist of it.
Vance
-- Edited by VanMar on Friday 26th of October 2012 06:10:09 AM
Lucky Mike said
09:30 PM Oct 26, 2012
You will never find a Rainbow if your looking down!!!!!
3fortheroad said
10:00 PM Oct 26, 2012
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I ended up where I needed to be.
Douglas Adams
Lucky Mike said
01:01 AM Oct 28, 2012
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” --Mark Twain
RVing at its best.....To some its going there......To others is getting there......to me its "Where the hell are we!!!!"
Loretta said
02:15 PM Oct 28, 2012
I always liked this one:
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming... 'Wow! What a ride!’
Lucky Mike said
05:12 PM Oct 29, 2012
KEEP Going!!!!!!!!............ Each step may get harder, But Don't Stop.......... The View at the Top is so Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!
TheHarveys said
04:41 AM Oct 30, 2012
Heard it on a Lexus car commercial...
Someday your life will pass before your eyes. Make it worth watching!
Alie and Jims Carrilite said
02:40 PM Oct 30, 2012
TheHarveys wrote:
Heard it on a Lexus car commercial...
Someday your life will pass before your eyes. Make it worth watching!
That is a great saying!
Terry and Jo said
09:43 PM Oct 30, 2012
Since I started this thread, perhaps I should step back into it with another quote. It isn't really about RV'ing specifically. One other way of thinking of it is to replace "click the shutter" with "view the beauty." At any rate, the quote is one of my favorites of all that he has said.
"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter."
Ansel Adams
Terry
-- Edited by Terry and Jo on Tuesday 30th of October 2012 09:43:36 PM
Jo And Craig said
01:49 AM Oct 31, 2012
Dance like no one's looking!
Lucky Mike said
10:07 PM Oct 31, 2012
Life is too short not to take time out to enjoy the fun. The best part of life is when family members become your friends and friends become family.
BruceandTrisha said
02:05 PM Nov 3, 2012
Love love love this quote:
"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints." -Robert Louis Stevenson
MarkS said
04:43 PM Nov 3, 2012
This is a great thread. It makes me want to share a philosophy I've developed since my age has reached the point where the days seem to go by faster. There comes a point when you realize that you have reached the pinnacle of your career. You aren't going to be promoted, you won't double your salary, where you are is where you'll retire. You're basically done painting the picture of your life. Some have ties to the community and will remain active by contributing to the community and some of us have moved several times and have no ties or family in the town where you live so there is no reason to stay. As I said in another post, if I were to retire in this house, I'd waste away on the back porch with nothing to do. In either case, you are passing time, doing your best to enjoy your remaining days. Actually, it's kind of nice. You have no pressure to become successful, no long hours at someone's direction, no goals in lieu of failure. You can choose to plan a day ahead or a week ahead or not to plan at all. That is why we have named our rig "Waiting for God". All things considered, it'll be much easier to come sliding sideways into the gravesite in a motor vehicle than in a rocking chair.
Lucky Mike said
08:37 PM Nov 3, 2012
like I said in an earlier post some where..........If you see this rig pulled over, the title is signed in the box......all I ask in exchange is to have a quick Cremation...tie my urn to the top of the rear ladder pull the top off and continue the journey..........to my Friends on that day....You will see me down the road!!!!!!!!!!! literally !!!!!!!
janni said
12:02 PM Nov 4, 2012
I also have really enjoyed this post. My life changed a lot when we sold everything and moved onto the road. When I had my first helicopter ride, two sessions on a respirator, open heart surgery, and facing my mortality at 55 years old..........this has become my philosophy.
""I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise." Dawna Markova
PS: feel blessed for each day!
-- Edited by janni on Sunday 4th of November 2012 12:02:55 PM
RVRon said
06:52 PM Nov 4, 2012
Lucky Mike wrote:
like I said in an earlier post some where..........If you see this rig pulled over, the title is signed in the box......all I ask in exchange is to have a quick Cremation...tie my urn to the top of the rear ladder pull the top off and continue the journey..........to my Friends on that day....You will see me down the road!!!!!!!!!!! literally !!!!!!!
I like that idea! A lot less expensive and a whole lot easier than the traditional end game stuff.
MarkS, what you said reflects our feelings perfectly. We actually moved away from our family ties in the northeast and started a new "life" in Florida. We had a nice home, local friends and volunteer positions that we liked but we felt tied down. As fulltimers now we can see our kids and grandkids a lot more, get reacquainted with friends and family we haven't seen in 30 years or more and see some great new places as a bonus. I don't know that we'll be able to do this forever but we're having a blast while it lasts!
BruceandTrisha said
09:02 PM Nov 4, 2012
Janni . . . love the quote from her book . . . "I Will Not Die an Unlived Life." Now, I want to go back and read it again! Thanks for sharing!
MarkS said
09:03 PM Nov 4, 2012
Janni, An outstanding philosophy. Both my wife and I have had our hearts attacked(?)! Even good diets and exercise didn't prevent them. However, I did learn not to try to keep up with the young on the volleyball court. Thank goodness one of those youngsters was an ER nurse!
At any rate, the way you value each day changes quickly.
Lucky Mike said
10:02 PM Nov 4, 2012
We are hitting home today!!!!!!!......................after this journey I am about to complete ,some of the greatest quotes , lessons that were spoken to me through out my life came home.
At 52 to have it all come to a major halt and all of the sudden find out that your only priority is to live and breathe.
If it wasnt for everyone on this site sharing there journey down the road I would have gone nuts in this place......
But this thread when I found it , is probably one of the greatest personal thinktanks going this month!!!!!!!
Thanks everyone............we each have our own lessons , paying them forward makes them all worth it!!
RVRon said
11:05 PM Nov 4, 2012
janni wrote:
""I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise." Dawna Markova
An excellent quote, Janni! Thanks for sharing! I can think of so many people who have indeed "lived an unlived life"... at least more "unlived" than others. We meet so many people who, when we tell them we live full time in our RV and travel, say they wish they could do the same or that we are living their dream. So many people are just afraid of taking the plunge, divesting themselves of all the stuff they truly don't need and really living their lives as they wish they could lead them. We've only been on the road a little over 7 months but I can honestly say that I have lived the life and if for some reason had to park myself somewhere permanently I would have no regrets other than that I couldn't do it longer or didn't start it sooner!
Lucky Mike said
09:05 PM Nov 6, 2012
I was reminded by my Doctor today that my blood type was "Be Positive"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PD CFK said
01:13 AM Nov 8, 2012
This thread needs a "like button"!! Love it. Pat K
“Who is rich? He who rejoices in his portion”
-- Edited by GENECOP on Thursday 25th of October 2012 04:17:28 PM
Just for grins and giggles, I'm starting this thread because I ran across great words of wisdom on the website "Pbase" where a LOT of photographers post and share their photos. It is one of the best photo websites that I've ever found, especially for those that want to see what photos taken with a particular brand/model of camera look like. The photographers there range from outright amateurs to very professional ones.
Anyway, while I don't remember which photographer had it in his area of Pbase, it certainly applied as great knowledge for the RV'er as well as the photographer, many of us who are actually both.
Without further ado (and other nonsense), I now give you my contribution to what I hope is a LOT of similar quotes and knowledge from the RV Dreams participants. (Sorry, no prizes for the best.)
“Watching the clock is not the same as watching a sunrise.”
Terry
Here are a couple that I like -
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. — Martin Buber
Cindy T
Nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.
Samuel Clemens AKA: Mark Twain
Pieere
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost, The Road not Taken
Chip
The last three lines of that poem is our mantra. Funny, I studied that poem in high school 40 years ago and it has never left my heart. I think it explains well the full time lifestyle.
"True courage is pursuing your dreams, even when everyone says it's impossible."
To live a life of Destiny
we must leave our comfort zone.
But far more ritches will be found
on the road we all call home.
-Me
Small House, Big Yard
My favorite.....
-- Edited by The Bear II on Wednesday 16th of May 2012 09:51:23 AM
Joe and Sherri
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - credited to Mark Twain
I was going to post that one! It is so true.
Goals are dreams with deadlines.
I say this every time I see a view (YNP, Badlands, WVA etc etc etc) I don't know where I picked it up from but it's kinda become my own little motto.
Certainly describes me versus our motorhome over the past couple of years.
Don
OK. I am slipping now. How did I miss welcoming you to the RV Dreams forums? I wonder if being 66 had anything to do with it.
Anyway, Deb and Don. Welcome to the RV Dreams forums as active participants. With each new participant, we all gain more knowledge....or a reminder of how little we do know when we hear the answers to questions. We look forward to your questions and comments.
Also, Alexander Pope's quotation would nearly fit me as well. Why nearly????
I also have another favorite quotation. "I know what I know and I know what I don't know, therefore, I DO know it all."
Terry
"It's 5 O'clock somewhere"
What you think about, talk about, and get off your butt and do something about is what comes about.
Larry Winget
PS.......If your there that day. The title is signed in the glove box , Please continue the journey and dont forget to feed the dog!!!!!
A magical Substance that turns "Leave me alone or die!!"...into..." Good morning Honey!!"
Bunk keeps asking me if I'm sure.....
My father was a wanderer, and I must take after him. That has been my signature line for a long long time.
We don't have a schedule and are sticking to it.
CCC
Bumper sticker that made us smile.
"My lifestyle is a lot more fun than your vacation."
Larry and JB
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher.
I think "fatal blunderer" is a bit harsh but I get the gist of it.
Vance
-- Edited by VanMar on Friday 26th of October 2012 06:10:09 AM
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I ended up where I needed to be.
Douglas Adams
RVing at its best.....To some its going there......To others is getting there......to me its "Where the hell are we!!!!"
I always liked this one:
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming...
'Wow! What a ride!’
Each step may get harder, But Don't Stop..........
The View at the Top is so Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!
Someday your life will pass before your eyes. Make it worth watching!
That is a great saying!
Since I started this thread, perhaps I should step back into it with another quote. It isn't really about RV'ing specifically. One other way of thinking of it is to replace "click the shutter" with "view the beauty." At any rate, the quote is one of my favorites of all that he has said.
-- Edited by Terry and Jo on Tuesday 30th of October 2012 09:43:36 PM
Dance like no one's looking!
The best part of life is when family members become your friends and friends become family.
Love love love this quote:
"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints." -Robert Louis Stevenson
I also have really enjoyed this post. My life changed a lot when we sold everything and moved onto the road. When I had my first helicopter ride, two sessions on a respirator, open heart surgery, and facing my mortality at 55 years old..........this has become my philosophy.
""I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise." Dawna Markova
PS: feel blessed for each day!
-- Edited by janni on Sunday 4th of November 2012 12:02:55 PM
I like that idea! A lot less expensive and a whole lot easier than the traditional end game stuff.
MarkS, what you said reflects our feelings perfectly. We actually moved away from our family ties in the northeast and started a new "life" in Florida. We had a nice home, local friends and volunteer positions that we liked but we felt tied down. As fulltimers now we can see our kids and grandkids a lot more, get reacquainted with friends and family we haven't seen in 30 years or more and see some great new places as a bonus. I don't know that we'll be able to do this forever but we're having a blast while it lasts!
Janni . . . love the quote from her book . . . "I Will Not Die an Unlived Life." Now, I want to go back and read it again! Thanks for sharing!
An outstanding philosophy. Both my wife and I have had our hearts attacked(?)! Even good diets and exercise didn't prevent them. However, I did learn not to try to keep up with the young on the volleyball court. Thank goodness one of those youngsters was an ER nurse!
At any rate, the way you value each day changes quickly.
At 52 to have it all come to a major halt and all of the sudden find out that your only priority is to live and breathe.
If it wasnt for everyone on this site sharing there journey down the road I would have gone nuts in this place......
But this thread when I found it , is probably one of the greatest personal thinktanks going this month!!!!!!!
Thanks everyone............we each have our own lessons , paying them forward makes them all worth it!!
An excellent quote, Janni! Thanks for sharing! I can think of so many people who have indeed "lived an unlived life"... at least more "unlived" than others. We meet so many people who, when we tell them we live full time in our RV and travel, say they wish they could do the same or that we are living their dream. So many people are just afraid of taking the plunge, divesting themselves of all the stuff they truly don't need and really living their lives as they wish they could lead them. We've only been on the road a little over 7 months but I can honestly say that I have lived the life and if for some reason had to park myself somewhere permanently I would have no regrets other than that I couldn't do it longer or didn't start it sooner!
I was reminded by my Doctor today that my blood type was "Be Positive"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!