"Thoughtful Traveling" ~ January 1, 2016
Channel: Stan McGahey
Date: 2016-01-03

URL: https://youtu.be/SeXHrOoNA-k

Hello Thoughtful Travelers! Welcome to today’s thought for January 1, 2016 and Happy New Year! 

Today’s thought is by Seneca the Younger who lived from 4 BC - 65 AD. Seneca was a Roman philosopher who also served as a tutor to Emperor Nero, the one who fiddled while Rome burned. Good job Seneca!

“Look at the stars lighting up the sky; none of them stays in the same place.”

So what are your thoughts on today’s quote? Here’s mine:

“If the stars are constantly moving across the universe, then it’s obvious to me that people are not meant to be anchored to any one specific place either. We are free to go! Movement is inherent in nature, whether it’s a star, a glacier, a raging river, a migratory bird, or a person with itchy feet and curiosity about what’s beyond the horizon. Billions of stars are traversing the sky, and millions of people are exploring the world, enjoying its wonders, and finding their place in it. Being on the go is the natural order of things.”

Here’s the list of all the sources quoted in January. I hope you’ll stop by each day to enjoy all the interesting and insightful things they have to say. Thanks, and see you tomorrow!

January 1-31, 2016 (entries listed by date and source):

01 Seneca the Younger
02 Chinese Proverb
03 Democritus
04 Agnes Repplier
05 Paul Theroux
06 Ralph Waldo Emerson
07 Mark Twain
08 Zhuang Zhou
09 Albert Einstein
10 William Shakespeare
11 Ban Ki-moon
12 Turkish Proverb
13 Gertrude Stein
14 (Advertisement)
15 Carl Sandburg
16 Stan McGahey
17 Buddha
18 Michael Palin
19 Shunryu Suzuki
20 Ernest Hemingway
21 Kabir
22 Freya Stark
23 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
24 Nils Kjaer
25 Ed Buryn
26 (Unknown)
27 Henry David Thoreau
28 Jan Myrdal
29 Louis L’Amour
30 William Hazlitt
31 Roy Goodman

Presented by Dr. Stan McGahey.  Want to learn how the tourism industry works? View my free series of short, narrated PPTs on a variety of important topics, entitled “Demystifying Tourism” on YouTube.