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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. ― Helen Keller

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below. –Daniel Boone

Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with this or that point of view. – Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning. ― Truman Capote

No, not conquer, that is too foolish a word. Any person who scales a mountain is still but a person, a transient speck compared to the immensity and permanence of a mountain. ― James Rozoff

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out. –Steve Jobs

When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have … Continue reading →

Everyone must believe in something, I believe I’ll go canoeing. –Henry David Thoreau

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ― Herman Melville

Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people. –Scott Weiss

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. -John Lubbock

Feel your emotions, Live true your passions, Keep still your mind. ― Geoffrey M. Gluckman

Each flower is a soul opening out to nature. – Gerald De Nerval

Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth. ~Diane Ackerman

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. –Rabindranath Tagore

I am not a teacher, but an awakener. ― Robert Frost

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one’s eyes… –George Sand

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. –Jean Toomer

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. –Mia Hamm

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. ― Helen Keller

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant’s point of view. ~H. Fred Dale

The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary. ~Alfred Kreymborg

Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second. –Mattie Stepanek

To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness, but life without meaning is the torture of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid. –Edgar Lee Masters

I love my father as the stars — he’s a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart. ~Terri Guillemets

He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland

In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn’t have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. ~Robert Brault

The sun would be better than a flashlight, except it doesn’t work at night. It probably needs to recharge its batteries from running all day. –Jarod Kintz

We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a silver lining in the clouds. But I believe there is real value in just standing there, being still, … Continue reading →

Let your life mean something. Become an inspiration to others so that they may try to do more and to become more than they are today. –Thomas D. Willhite

There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster. ― Dalai Lama XIV

Good luck is a residue of preparation. ― Jack Youngblood

You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle. ― Shannon L. Alder

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. -Epictetus

There’s nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway. ~Mark Burnett