All God wants of man is a peaceful heart - Meister Eckert

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin

"Look deep, deep into nature and then you will understand everything better" - Albert Einstein

"One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."  - Henry Miller

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"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction." - George Lorimer

"The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture." - 

-  Thomas Jefferson

"I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?"  - Douglas Adams

If ever in need of a good book to read while seeking a temporary escape from reality,  check out Douglas Adams' "So Long And Thanks For all The Fish".  Great book, great writer.  We miss you Douglas Adams!
  

"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."  ~Claude Monet

Take time today to notice the beauty all around you.

"Each morning we are born again.  What we do today is what matters most." -  Buddha

"No one saves us but ourselves.  No one can and no one may.

  We ourselves must walk the path."   - Budda

 

"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences." -  Robert G. Ingersoll

The Gorge, Niagara Falls  - Whirlpool - Awesome Power

"Nothing is worth more than this day" - Goethe

 

  

( This picture was taken at the bottom of the hill at the Gorge, Niagara Falls NY.)

"Carpe diem  - Seize The Day" - Latin Proverb

Guess what day it is.  It's today. 

 Enjoy it.

Beauty Is All Around Us

  "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must
     carry it with us or we find it not."

                                                                                - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Erie Canal

"To the dull mind nature is leaden.  To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Use What You Have

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me."  ~Erma Bombeck

 

“A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.” - Mahatma Gandi

May 2, 2010

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.  Marie Curie