Track

Even if you’re on the right track,

 you’ll get run over if 

you just sit there.
~Will Rogers~

Sound

The sound of birds 
stops the noise
 in my mind.
~Carly Simon~  

Why Wait

Why wait

 for the weekend

 to have fun  

~Loesje~

Mask

 

The most important kind of freedom

 is to be what you really are. 

You trade in your reality for a role.

 You give up your ability to feel, 

and in exchange, put on a mask.
~Jim Morrison~

What Is

 

I urge you to please notice when you are happy,

 and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 

if this isn’t nice,

 I don’t know what is.

~Kurt Vonnegut~

Light

 

We cannot hold a torch

 to light another's path

 without brightening our own.

  ~Ben Sweetland~

Magic

A river seems

 a magic thing.

 A magic, moving, 
living part 

of the very earth itself.
~Laura Gilpin~

Lease

 

Summer's lease

 hath all too short a date.
~ William Shakespeare ~

Harmony

 

But what is happiness

 except the simple harmony

 between a man and the life he leads?

 ~Albert Camus~

Blessed

 

All we have is all we need. 

All we need is 

the awareness of

 how blessed we really are.

 ~Sarah Ban Breathnach~

Travel

 

We wander for distraction,

 but we travel for fulfillment.

 ~Hilaire Belloc~

 

Be Safe my Bubby

I Love you.

Trees

 

I like trees

 because they seem

 more resigned

 to the way they 

have to live 

than other things do.

 ~Willa Cather~

Wisely and Earnestly

 

The secret of

 health for both mind and body

 is not to mourn for the past, 

worry about the future,

 or anticipate troubles 

but to live in the present moment

 wisely and earnestly.

~ Buddha~

Every Minute

 

Happiness cannot be

 traveled to, owned, earned, or worn.

 It is the spiritual experience of 

living every minute with

 love, grace & gratitude.

 ~ Denis Waitley~

Attitude

 

Attitudes are contagious.

 Make yours worth catching.

~ Unknown~

Paddle

 

Love everyone. 

Trust few. 

Paddle your own canoe. 

~ Anonymous~

Accomplish

 

To accomplish great things,

 we must not only act,

 but also dream, not only plan, 

but also believe.

~Anatole France~

Words

 

Words have the power to DESTROY or HEAL people. 

When words are both TRUE and KIND 

they can change our world.

~Tsem Tulku Rinpoche~

For a Reason

 

Eventually all things fall into place. 

Until then, laugh at the confusion, 

live for the moments,

 and know everything happens

 for a reason.

~Albert Schweitzer~

Take

What I take from my nights,

 I add to my days.

 ~Leon de Rotrou,~

Thankful

Be Thankful for what you have; 
you’ll end up having more.
 If you concentrate on what you don’t have,
 you will never, ever have enough.

~Oprah Winfrey~

Rest

 

Rest is not idleness, 

and to lie sometimes on the grass

 under the trees on a summer’s day,

 listening to the murmur of water,

 or watching the clouds float across the blue sky,

 is by no means waste of time. 

~John Lubbock~

Today

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself;
 I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.
 I can choose which it shall be.
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet.
 I have just one day, today,
and I’m going to be happy in it.

~Groucho Marx~

Have Peace

 

We can have peace 

after we stop hating love,

 and stop loving hate.

~ Josh Hite~

Ought to Be

 

Stop wearing your wishbone 

where your backbone

 ought to be.

~Elizabeth Gilbert~

Hold onto That

You are not useless. You are not hopeless.
 And no matter how scared you are, you will never be alone. 
And deep down, somewhere, in the part of you that decided
 the good days and your happiness and your health 
 were all worth fighting for,you know that, too. 
Hold onto that knowledge.
 It will see you through the worst.
~Ella Ceron~

Wise Medicine

 

Good food is

 wise medicine. 

~Alison Levitt M.D~

Hold Fast

 

Hold fast to dreams, 
  For if dreams die  
Life is a broken-winged bird,
  That cannot fly.
~Langston Hughes~