Child Labor

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time. ~Grace Abbott

Be Nice

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. ~Phyllis Diller

Build Strong Children

It is easier to build strong children, than to repair broken men. ~Frederick Douglass

Another Time

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Rabbinical Saying

Most Important

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. ~Morrie Schwartz

Btw, I will be spending the week with my 7 year old nephew, so I might not post daily. Be well....

Love is....

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. ~Toni Morrison

Love and Friendship

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Travel Is...

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones ~Anne Sophie Swetchine

A Change

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. ~Miriam Beard

A Guest

A guest never forgets the host who had treated him kindly. ~Homer

Journeys End

Journeys end in lovers meeting. ~William Shakespeare

Painting by: Brian Kershisnik

A Traveler

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. ~G. K. Chesterton

My Travels

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunities. ~Diana Ross

Whole Sky

You can't see the whole sky through a bamboo tube.
~Japanese Saying

Within

The only journey is the one within.. ~Rainer Maria Rilke

Btw, Get Zapped has been going strong for 1 year! Thanks to all of you for supporting this blog and the intent to help make for a better world.

~Peace

Fork in the Road

If you come to a fork in the road take it. ~Yogi Berra

My Favorite Thing

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been. ~Diane Arbus

Encountered Myself

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. ~James Baldwin

Like Marriage

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. ~John Steinbeck

New Eyes

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ~Marcel Proust

I See My Path

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it. ~Rosalia de Castro

Photo by: Miguel

Americans Abroad

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages. ~Dave Barry

Traveled the Road

Only he that has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep. ~Chinese Proverb

Become Friends

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. ~Maya Angelou

No Fixed Plans

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ~Lao Tzu

Your Travel Bag

Let your memory be your travel bag. ~Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The More You Ask

The more you ask how much longer it will take, the longer the journey seems. ~Maori Saying

Happy Independence Day to those who celebrate it!

One's Destination

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. ~Henry Miller

Like My Shoes

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong. ~Mother Jones

The Drop

The happiness of the drop is to die in the river. ~Al-Ghazali

Follow the River

Follow the river and you will find the sea. ~French Proverb

Primal Highways

Rivers are the primal highways of life. ~Tom Robbins

New Waters

You can never step into the same river; for new waters are always flowing on to you. ~Heraclitus of Ephesus

The River

The river itself has no beginning or end. ~T.S. Eliot

Drift Along

Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways. ~Edward de Bono

Happy Summer Solstice

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

River of Grass

The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass. ~Marjory S. Douglas

Joy of Fishes

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river. ~Zhuangzi

Water Under the Bridge

People who have lost relationships often wonder why they can't just let it be "water under the bridge." It is water under the bridge - the trouble is we do not live on the bridge but in the river of life with its many twists and turns. ~Grant Fairley

One

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. ~Kahlil Gibran

The River Bends

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends. ~John Enoch Powell

Light of Day

Only the man who crosses the river at night knows the value of the light of day. ~Chinese Proverb

River of Life

Love is the river of life in the world. ~Henry Ward Beecher

To Be Known...

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
~Winnie the Pooh

By the River

If you're going to live by the river, make friends with the crocodile. ~Indian Proverb

Following the Bend

The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.
~Eartha Kitt

Be A Channel

If you dam a river it stagnates. Running water is beautiful water. So be a channel. ~English Proverb

Soothing and Energizing

I look down over the river, which is soothing and energizing at the same time. ~Jeanette Winterson

Belief

Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.
~William Stafford

Our Love

Our love is like the misty rain that falls softly, but floods the river. ~African Proverb