Soar

May 11, 2016

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings. Helen Hayes Photo by Dave Irey

Belief

May 11, 2016

Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think. Billy Graham

Take time

May 11, 2016

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. Thornton Wilder

Gratitude

May 11, 2016

A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being. James E. Faust

Be

May 8, 2016

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. Victor Hugo Photo by Dave Irey

Shine

May 7, 2016

Scott had taken numerous detours before finding his true path. In time he realized that each one was leading him to discover how best to use the gifts that could make his life shine.

Laugh it off

May 1, 2016

If I were asked to consult on the second edition of the Ten Commandments, one of my commandments would be, ‘Thou shalt not take thyself too seriously.’ Daniel Gottlieb. Author of The Wisdom We’re Born With

Gone fishin’

May 1, 2016

Fishing is not an escape from life, but often a deeper immersion into it. Harry Middleton

Joined at the heart

May 1, 2016

The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way. Joyce Carol Oates

Magic

May 1, 2016

There is magic in the mountains, the sun, and the clouds. Perhaps taking time to notice awakens us to the fact that each of us has a bit of magic inside as well.

Inseparable

April 30, 2016

I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them. Charles Lindbergh

Invincible

April 30, 2016

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus

Sundown

April 30, 2016

The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper, set the clouds to one great roof of flame above the earth. Elizabeth Coatsworth

Lend a hand

April 30, 2016

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. Edward Everett Hale

Reflection

April 30, 2016

At the end of the day, tell yourself gently: ‘I love you, you did the best you could today, and even if you didn’t accomplish all you had planned, I love you anyway.’ Anonymous

Bring it

April 29, 2016

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. Anthony J. D’Angelo

Seek and ye shall find

April 29, 2016

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me. Helen Keller

The bright side

April 28, 2016

Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called ‘All the things that could go wrong.’ Marianne Williamson

Amazing

April 28, 2016

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. Edward Abbey

Persistence

April 28, 2016

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. Orison Swett Marden