Genuine beginnings ...

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even if they are brought

to our attention by external opportunities.

William Bridges

The Raven Foundation

Flowers are words ...

Flowers are words even a baby can understand.

Quentin Crisp

.... choice

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

George Eliot

A friend ....

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Jim Morrison

The Raven Foundation

Reality ...

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

... can spring be far behind?

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

A good conscience ...

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Benjamin Franklin

Christmas ....

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold,

everything is softer and more beautiful.

Norman Vincent Peale

Water ...

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Mark Twain

Happiness....

Happiness is the sense that one matters.

Sarah Trimmer

One kind word ...

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese Proverb

Tomorrow.....

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking

about yesterday all the time.

Charles Kettering

The aging process ....

The aging process has got you firmly in its grasp if you never get

the urge to throw a snowball.

Doug Larsen

Bad weather ...

Bad weather always looks worse through a window.

Tom Lehrer

Adversity ....

As the yellow gold is tried in the fire, so is sincerity tested in adversity.

Ovid

Happiness...

Happiness is realising that nothing is too important.

Antonio Gala

Let your life dance ...

Let your life dance on the edges of time

like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Rabindranath Tagore

Nature .....

Nature is an infinite sphere whose centre is everywhere and

whose circumference is nowhere.

Blaise Pascal

In the depth of winter ...

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within

me lay an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

The flowers anew ....

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring;

But faded beauty has no second spring.

Ambrose Philips

Great joys....

Great joys, like griefs, are silent.

Shackerley Marmion

Awaken yourself ...

Awaken yourself to the power of your own mind to make things happen.

Robin Sharma

The secret of success ....

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

The Raven Foundation

Real generosity ...

Real generosity towards the future consists in giving

all to what is present.

Albert Camus

Yesterday ....

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Lyndon Johnson

** And if there are no posts in the next couple of days,

it's because I have no internet connection.

To think ....

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we

normally take for granted.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Words...

Words are a heavy thing ... they weigh you down.

If birds talked, they couldn't fly.

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

Silence ...

Silence is a source of great strength.

Lao Tzu

Whoever wants to reach ...

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Saul Bellow

The best vision ...

The best vision is insight.

Malcolm Forbes

Fishing ...

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may

return to the simplicity of our forefathers.

Herbert Hoover

The limits of my language...

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Art is born ...

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

A man has free choice ...

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Thomas Aquinas

Freedom ...

Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.

Lisa Murkowski

Use what talents ...

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if

no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Henry van Dyke

The future ...

The future will be better tomorrow.

Dan Quayle

By plucking her petals ...

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Rabindranath Tagore

Every burden ...

Every burden is a blessing.

Walt Kelly

The Raven Foundation

Art ...

Art is making something out of nothing and then selling it.

Frank Zappa

Rarely do great beauty ...

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

Tomorrow.....

Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but tomorrow never comes.

Benjamin Franklin

Winter is on my head ...

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

Victor Hugo

Views ...

Views from various resting places give us time to pause, look and see.

Rosemary Verey

There is more to life ...

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Gandhi

Perfumes ...

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

Heinrich Heine

Light tomorrow ...

Light tomorrow with today.

Elizabeth Browning

You are never too old...

You are never too old to set a new goal or dream a new dream.

C.S. Lewis

The power ...

The power that makes grass grow, fruit open, and guides

the bird in flight, is in us all.

Anzia Yezierska

The flower that follows the sun ...

The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days.

Robert Leighton