"Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - 

that stillness becomes a radiance."

- Morgan Freeman -

"We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. 

But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something."

- Mother Teresa -

"Winter is an etching,

spring a watercolor,

summer an oil painting

and autumn a mosaic of them all."

-Stanley Horowitz -

Lines Written in the Days of Growing Darkness

Every year we have been

witness to it:  how the

world descends 

into a rich mash, in order that

it may resume.

And therefore

who would cry out

to the petals on the ground

to stay,

knowing, as we must,

how the vivacity of what was is married

to the vitality of what will be?

I don't say

it's easy, but

what else will do

if the love one claims to have for the world

be true?

So let us go on

though the sun be swinging east,

and the ponds be cold and black,

and the sweets of the year be doomed.

- Mary Oliver _

"Don't shoot what it looks like.

Shoot what it feels like."

- David Alan Harvey -

"You can't go back and change the beginning,

but you can start where you are and

change the ending."

- CS Lewis -

"Sometimes I need

only to stand

wherever I am

to be blessed"

-Mary Oliver-

"Ring the bells that still can ring.

Forget your perfect offering.

There is a crack in everything.

That's how the light gets in."

-Leonard Cohen-

"Anthem"

"Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance."

-Coco Chanel-

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

-Albert Einstein-

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

"If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate.  Give in to it."

-Mary Oliver-

"I found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."

-Elliot Erwin-

"Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look."

-Jodi Picoult-

"Study nature, love nature, stay close to  nature.  

It will never fail you."

-Frank Lloyd Wright-

"Sometimes reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey."

At other times, it is allowing another to take yours."

-Vera Nazarian-

"There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground."

-Rumi-

"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which loveliness arises."

- Pedro Calderon de la Barca -

"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature."

-Gerard De Nerval-

Just living is not enough...

one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

-Hans Christian Anderson-

"When you remember me, it means you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am on you.  It means that you can summon me back to your mind even though countless years and miles may stand between us.  It means that if we meet again, you will know me.  It means that even after I die, you can still see my face and hear my voice and speak to me in your heart."

-Frederick Buechner-

"There is nothing that art cannot exposes."

-Oscar Wilde-

"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.  Let me learn from you, bless you before you depart.  Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow."

-Mary Jean Irion-

"People are like bicycles.

They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving."

Albert Einstein,

in a letter to his son Eduard

(February 5, 1930)