Author Archives: TA Loeffler

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation. ― Robert H. Schuller

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one … Continue reading →

A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking. ― Dan Chaon

Skiing is a dance, and the mountain always leads. ~Author Unknown

I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops. ― Nikki Giovanni

To try is to invite uncertainty. Where confidence goes, success usually follows. ― Wayne Gerard Trotman

When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels. – Unknown

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end – and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral. –Maynard James Keenan A circle is the reflection of … Continue reading →

We love the things we love for what they are. ― Robert Frost

Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through the body and the body through the world. ― Rebecca Solnit

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. ― Kahlil Gibran

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken. ~William Stafford

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride. ― Karen Horney

Winter is the time for stories, staying fast by the glow of fire. And outside, in the darkness, the stars are brighter than you can possibly imagine. ― Isabel Greenberg

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. ― Haruki Murakami

Life is a long lesson in humility. ― J.M. Barrie

Don’t knock the weather. If it didn’t change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn’t start a conversation. ― Kim Hubbard

You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes. ― Lauren Oliver

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves. ― Jack Kornfield

You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather. ― Pema Chödrön

I’m a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that’s me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I’d die; I don’t know what of, I just knew I’d … Continue reading →

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager. ― Susan Sontag

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. ― Anne Frank

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite. ― Cassandra Clare

Searching for happiness prevents us from ever finding it. -Pema Chödrön

But the beauty is in the walking — we are betrayed by destinations. ― Gwyn Thomas

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. ― Steven Wright

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning. ― Gloria Steinem

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. – Mary Oliver

Safe, I decided, didn’t leave much room for fun. ― Justina Chen

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another. ― Veronica Roth

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. ~Flavia