Salt Water

 

The cure for anything is 

salt water -

 sweat, tears, or the sea. 

 ~Isak Dinesen~

Life Storms

 

We all have life storms, 

and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, 

we should celebrate that we got through it. 

No matter how bad it may seem, 

there's always something beautiful that you can find. 

~Mattie Stepanek~

We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there's always something beautiful that you can find.

Mattie Stepanek

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Glance of the Eye

 

An eye can threaten like a loaded and leveled gun, 

or it can insult like hissing or kicking;

 or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness,

 it can make the heart dance for joy.... 

One of the most wonderful things

 in nature is a glance of the eye;

 it transcends speech; 

it is the bodily symbol

 of identity.  

~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

My Goal

My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.  
~Author Unknown~

Untroubled Retreat

Nowhere can man find

 a quieter or more

 untroubled retreat

 than in his own soul. 

 ~Marcus Aurelius~

Bumps In The Road

Life is not a smooth traveled highway 

but a dirt road with many twists, turns, and bumps.

Greet It

 

I love spring anywhere,

 but if I could choose

 I would always greet it

 in a garden.
~ Ruth Stout~

Welcome Spring

So glad to see you again!

Crack in Everything

 

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~

Never Outgrow

A daughter may outgrow your lap, 

but she will never outgrow your heart.  

~Author Unknown~

Love an Animal

 

Until one has

 loved an animal,

 a part of one's soul

 remains unawakened.

 ~Anatole France~

The Cloud

I am the daughter of Earth and Water,
And the nursling of the Sky;
I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;
I change, but I cannot die....
~Percy Bysshe Shelley~

Also

 

Patience is also 

a form of action. 

~Auguste Rodin~

Autograph Of Love

Is not a kiss the very autograph of love?  

~Henry Finck~

Happy Irish Day

What do you get when you cross

 poison ivy with a four-leaf clover? 

 A rash of good luck.

  ~Author Unknown~

A Clenched Fist

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.  

~Indira Gandhi~

Grow

Don't go through life,

 grow through life.
~ Eric Butterworth~

Silly Spring

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!  
~Wallace Stevens~

It's not

 

Unless someone like you

 cares a whole awful lot,

 nothing is going to get better. 

 It's not. 

 ~Dr. Seuss~

Birds

 

Without love, 

we are birds with 

broken wings.

~ Mitch Albom~

All My Life

All my life I had been looking for something, 

and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. 

 I accepted their answers too, 

though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory.  

I was naïve. 

 I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, 

and only I, could answer.  

It took me a long time 

and much painful boomeranging of my expectations 

to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: 

 that I am nobody but myself.  

~Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal"~

Gleefully

A friend will remind you

 that assumptions born of malice

 are better dealt with

 by gleefully sticking

 your tongue out. 

 ~Dodinsky~

The Great Door

As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.  

~Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping~

Bloom

 

Bloom where

 you are planted. 

 ~Mother Jones~

Agreeable Friends

 

Animals are such 

agreeable friends -

 they ask no questions, 

they pass no criticisms.

 ~George Eliot~

Essential

 

Be beautiful if you can,

 wise if you want to,

 but be respected

 - that is essential. 

 ~Anna Gould~

Be Better

 

Don't bother just to be better than

 your contemporaries or predecessors. 

 Try to be better than yourself.

  ~William Faulkner~

On the Road

 

A person often meets his destiny 

on the road he took to avoid it. 

 ~Jean de La Fontaine~

Start And End

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.  
~Anthony Brandt~

Within

 

People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace.

 They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people,

 hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. 

The irony is the only place

 they ever needed to search 

was within.
~Ramona L. Anderson~

The Happiest

In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.  

~Robert Brault~