Columbine, Roan Mountain
“Courage doesn’t always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
‘I will try again tomorrow.’”
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Wild Air & Sunshine
“Live in the sunshine,
swim the sea, drink the wild air…”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
No Substitute
“Wishing will never be a substitute for prayer.”
Ed Cole, 1909-1977
General Motors executive
Creativity
“When we are writing, or painting, or composing,
we are, during the time of creativity,
freed from normal restrictions,
and are opened to a wider world,
where colors are brighter, sounds clearer,
and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.”
Madeleine L’Engle, 1918-2007
Walking on Water 1980
Take a Risk
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.”
Helen Keller, 1880-1968
Birthdays
“The great thing about getting older
is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.”
Madeleine L’Engle, b. 1918
Learn Something
“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions,
never know too much to learn something new.”
Og Mandino, 1923-1996
Author
Rush
“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do
with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”
Will Rogers, 1879-1935
Trail
Appalachian Trail crossing Beauty Spot
“Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
Never Accept
“Work and struggle
and never accept
an evil that you can change.”
Andre Gide, 1869-1951
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1947
Impossible
Mimosa
“Accomplishing the impossible
means only that the boss
will add it to your regular duties.”
Doug Larson, b. 1926
There You Are
Laurel Falls
“And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.”
Earl Mac Rauch
“Buckaroo Bansai”
Get Off Your Butt
Buffalo Mountain
“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
Jane Goodall, b. 1934
British anthropologist
Unsafe Path
Grandfather Mountain
“Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker.
Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy.
Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’
than the stigma of conformity.
And on issues that seem important to you,
stand up and be counted at any cost.”
Thomas J. Watson, 1874-1956
President of IBM
Seriously
“It is our responsibilities, not ourselves,
that we should take seriously.”
Peter Ustinov, 1921-2004
Owner’s Manual
“Every time you suppress some part of yourself
or allow others to play you small,
you are in essence ignoring the owner’s manual
your creator gave you and destroying your design.”
Oprah Winfrey, b. 1954
O Magazine, February 2003
Fairy Tale
“Everyman’s life is a fairy tale written by God’s fingers.”
Hans Christian Anderson
Be Who You Are
“Be who you are and say what you feel,
because those who mind don’t matter
and those who matter don’t mind.”
Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991
Beyond Our Grasp
“The next moment is as much beyond our grasp,
and as much in God’s care, as that a hundred years away.
Care for the next minute is as foolish
as care for a day in the next thousand years.
In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything.”
C. S. Lewis
Good Point
“Only the mediocre are always at their best.”
Jean Giraudoux, 1882-1944
French novelist, playwright
Do Nothing
Rhododendron blossom opening
“You have to allow a certain amount of time
in which you are doing nothing
in order to have things occur to you,
to let your mind think.”
Mortimer Adler, 1902-2001
Philosopher and educator
Scandalous
“Because grace is scandalous.
Grace does not make sense to our tiny human brains.
We can’t control it. We can’t draw boundaries and borders on it.
And when we try I think it breaks God’s heart.
I think we insult the cross when we act as if we can ‘out sin’ it.
I think we wound our father when we think we can ‘out filth’ his love.
I think we hurt our Christ when we believe
that we have found the end of his grace.”
Jon Acuff,
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