Winter Ocean

This busy, puzzling stirrer-up of doubt, That frames deep mysteries,
then finds "em out.
~John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
"A satire Against Mankind"

Memories

Life brings simple pleasures to us every day. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories.
~ Cathy Allen

Whatever you feel

Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
~T. S. Eliot
British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet (1888 - 1965)

View from the side of the road

And all my days are trances,
And all my nightly dreams,
Are where thy dark eye glances,

And where thy footstep gleams
In what ethereal dances
By what eternal streams.

E.A. Poe, To One in Paradise

Happiness

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.

~William H. Sheldon

SeaStars

If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through
the dust no matter how thick.

Bob Dylan (1941 - )

Dune grass

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints
his own nature into his pictures.

~Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887

Value

Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.

~James Hilton (1900 - 1954)

Joy

He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in Eternity's sunrise.
~William Blake

Time

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
~Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)

Truth

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
~Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

Tree Frog

You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

~Bernadette Peters, Inside the Actors Studio

Mare and foal

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

~Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)

Wonder

Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves.

~Herbert W. Boyer, co-founder of Genentech, Inc.

I like living

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

~Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)

Foxglove

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

~George Sand (1804 - 1876)

Growing older

It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation
of what is new and different and difficult.
~Elizabeth Aston
The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005

Red-shouldered Hawk

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

Boardwalk

Little by little, one travels far.
~J. R. R. Tolkien
British scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 - 1973)

Bump

Even with the best of maps and instruments,
we can never fully chart our journeys.
~Gail Pool