seasons meet.

winter blankets fall.

ndls.

there's a little magic about notre dame...
{kevin white}

high heels.

remember, ginger rogers did everything fred astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.
{faith whittlesey}

apple.

why not upset the apple cart?  if you don't, the apples will rot anyway.
{frank howard clark}

cocoa.

all you need is love.  but a little [hot] chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
{charles m. schulz}

live.

life is filled with so many exciting twists and turns.  hop off the straight and narrow whenever you can and take the winding paths.  experience the exhilaration of the view from the edge.  because the moments spent there, that take your breath away, are what make you feel truly alive.
{stacey charter}

library.

you can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
{c.s. lewis}

immobile.

life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.
{albert einstein}

clock in.

it is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.
{sidney madwed}

brick.

better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point.  a diamond with a flaw is more valuable than a brick without a flaw.
{william j.h. boetcker}

apple tree.

even if i knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, i would still plant my apple tree.
{martin luther}

milky way.

silently one by one,
in the infinite meadows of heaven,
blossomed the lovely stars,
the forget-me-nots of the angels."
{longfellow (evangeline)}

leap.

faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land.
{carter heyward}

paradise.

venus&mars.

women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
{jean kerr}

animals.

in dwelling, live close to the ground.  in thinking, keep to the simple.  in conflict, be fair and generous.  in governing, don't try to control.  in work, do what you enjoy.  in family life, be completely present.
{lao tzu}

sister.

both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.

{elizabeth fishel}

flag.

a thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the nation that sets it forth.
{henry ward beecher}

pda.

your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

{jalal ad-din rumi}

chain bridge.

bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.
{bruce jackson}

doors.

follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.

{joseph campbell}

alone.

our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone.  it has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone.  and it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
{paul tillich}

reflect.

how we think shows through in how we act.  attitudes are mirrors of the mind.
{david joseph schwartz}

boat.

we may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
{martin luther king, jr.}

free ride.

life is uncharted territory.  it reveals its story one moment at a time.
{leo f. buscaglia}

passions.

absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
{francois de la rochefoucauld}

climb.

it is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
{edmund hillary}

swing, swing.

i still get wildly enthusiastic about little things...i play with leaves. i skip down the street and run against the wind.
{leo f. buscaglia}

joined.

and truly, what do we have left
but moments of this gazing, pulling
at each other, at ourselves,
the shells ground finer and finer
under our feet
making a kind of jagged sand..."
{ruth l. schwartz}

fire (& ice)

some say the world will end in fire,
some say in ice.
from what I've tasted of desire
i hold with those who favor fire.
{robert frost}

a point.

i was on acid and i looked at the trees and i realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to a point.  i thought, 'oh! everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it.'
{harry nilsson}

no difference.

america has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress.  it acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
{louis d. brandeis}

breaking through.

there are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
{ronald reagan}

youth.

when it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.
{marty bucella}

bastion.

a mighty fortress is our god, a bulwark never failing...
{martin luther}

faceless unknown.

we sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
{fydor dostoevsky}

exposed.

you have to grow from the inside out. none can teach you, none can make you spiritual.  there is no other teacher but your own soul.
{swami vivekanada}

roll on.

hitch your wagon to a star.
{ralph waldo emerson}

artful advice.

{alwyes Look on the Bright Side of Life.}

lighten.

may you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart.
{eskimo proverb}

.

sunset surf.

the wedge, newport beach, california.

safe wanderings.

just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind.  to walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
{buddha}

joy.

the earth laughs in flowers.
{ralph waldo emerson}

boots on.

there comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.
{baldwin spencer}

directions.

i guess i didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way.  i was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that i thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

{steven soderbergh}

dreams.

far away there in the [moonlight], are my highest aspirations.  i may not reach them, but i can look up at them and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
{louisa may alcott}

resolutions.

bottom line is, if you do not use it or need it, it's clutter, and it needs to go.
{charisse ward}