Bald Eagle

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
~Edgar Allan Poe, Berenice
US short story author, editor, & poet (1809 - 1849)

Flow

“I flow with life.
It makes things so much easier than to have things my way all the time.”

~Peter Koslowski

Boardwalk

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
~William Faulkner
US novelist (1897 - 1962)

Healing

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure.
~George Melton

Umpqua River Lighthouse

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
~Henry George
US economist (1839 - 1897)

Action

The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
~Andre Gide
French critic, essayist, & novelist (1869 - 1951)

Ecstatic

I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.
~Shakti Gawain

Full moon

"Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine."
~Buddha

I Am

The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.
~A. L. Kitselman

Storms

Storms make oaks take deeper root.
~George Herbert
English clergyman & metaphysical poet (1593 - 1633)

Attention

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
~Tryon Edwards
(1809 - 1894)

Red-breasted Sapsucker

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
~Ethel Barrett

The Storm

They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
~Dorothy Parker,
'Fair Weather,' Sunset Gun, 1928
US author, humorist,
poet, & wit (1893 - 1967)

Power

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?
~Lois McMaster Bujold,
A Civil Campaign, 1999
US science fiction author