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The Healing Place

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Just John

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Moorea

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A Whale Sized Visit

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I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

A ship is always safe at the shore – but that is NOT what it is built for.

- Albert Einstein -

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

- Groucho Marx -

Everything will be alright in the end … If it’s not alright, then it’s not yet the end.

- Sonny Kapoor -

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- Mark Twain -

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal.

- Paulo Coelho -

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”

- Hunter S. Thompson -