“Throughout life, one does not miss any chance
to hold onto the things that are really precious,
if one is truly wise.”
Ed Greenwood
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Worthwhile
“It’s always helpful to learn from your mistakes
because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.”
Garry Marshall, b. 1934
‘Wake Me When It’s Funny’
Every Time
“Choose love or fear every time the choice arises.”
Anthony Kiedis, b. 1962
Lead singer, Red Hot Chili Peppers
Happy Easter
“It is the hour to rend thy chains,
The blossom time of souls.”
Katherine Lee Bates, 1859-1929
Author of lyrics to “America the Beautiful”
Judged
Woods full of Trout Lillies
“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882
Truth
Spring Beauty
“We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.”
Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662
Lots to Do
Squirrel Corn
“There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.”
Mary Wilson Little
Tarry
Rue Anemone
“My evil genius Procrastination
has whispered me to tarry
’til a more convenient season.”
Mary Todd Lincoln, 1818-1882
God is Awake
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life
and patience for the small ones;
and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task,
go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”
Victor Hugo, 1802-1885
A Good One
Lady Bug on the prowl for evil aphids
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865
Play
“To play it safe is not to play.”
Robert Altman, 1925-2007
Risk
“What you risk reveals what you value.”
Jeanette Winterson
Compromises
“Lasting change is a series of compromises.
And compromise is all right,
as long your values don’t change.”
Jane Goodall, b. 1934
Of All The Pulpits
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
“Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth,
there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.”
John Ruskin, 1819-1900
