Risk

July 30, 2016

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing ‘real’ was at risk, what would you do? You’d live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That’s what the ghosts want us to do – all the […]

Endurance

July 30, 2016

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars. Og Mandino

Bounce back

July 29, 2016

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway

Change

July 29, 2016

When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves. Viktor E. Frankl

Strength

July 27, 2016

Don’t wish me happiness – I don’t expect to be happy it’s gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor – I will need them all. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Gratitude

July 25, 2016

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’ William Arthur Ward

Give us this day…..

July 24, 2016

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Impeccable

July 20, 2016

Speak impeccably. Thy tongue is a great builder or devastating destroyer. Choose words that encourage the people you meet. Like a pebble thrown into a pond, our words can have far reaching effects.

Leisure

July 18, 2016

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. Henry David Thoreau

Smile

July 18, 2016

I love being my silly ole self! Life is a lot better when you have a good sense of humor and you smile. Unknown

Turbulence

July 18, 2016

At some stage in most people’s lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be. Susanne Bier

Rock solid

July 18, 2016

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Thomas Jefferson

Soar

July 18, 2016

Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will. Aiden Wilson Tozer

Habitual

July 13, 2016

“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate […]

Tranquility

July 10, 2016

“In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world – the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.” John Muir

Reality

July 10, 2016

This quote is not from the famous golf coach Harvey Penick. It is from a retired player who stopped counting after buying putter #96. ‘A three hundred dollar putter can never compensate for a 29 cent putting stroke.’

Hope and Faith

July 10, 2016

Feelings aroused by the touch of someone’s hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith – all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well. Bernie Siegel

The path

July 9, 2016

The choices that we make through our lives, the people who intersect us on our path kind of change what our fated destiny is. So some of us are lucky enough for the choices that we make to keep us on our path. Anthony Mackie

Gusto

July 9, 2016

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see. Angelina Jolie

Solitary refinement

July 9, 2016

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. Victor Hugo