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FC: Paris & Saint Amilion SUMMER MMVII

1: Paris

5: "Happy is the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!" -- Joachim du Bellay

6: "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." -- Confucius

7: "In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator." -- Jean Cocteau

11: "Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal." -- Alighieri Dante

12: "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." -- Emerson

17: "Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived." -- Frank Lloyd Wright

18: "Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked." -- Saint Augustine

19: "On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him." -- Buddha

20: "You can never step into the same river; for new waters are always flowing on to you." -- Heraclitus

22: "This--this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice...a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape." -- Roger Bannister

24: "Every man has two countries: his own and France." -- Thomas Jefferson

30: "In seven different Scriptures God has dogmatically stated: 'build all things according to the pattern shown to you..." -- Ron Garner

32: "Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done." -- A. E. Hotchner

34: Saint Emilion

35: "We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey." -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

38: "As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." -- James Lane Allen

41: "People are like stained glass windows; they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within." -- Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

44: "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page." -- Saint Augustine

45: "Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts." -- Rachel Louise CarsonCarson