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)

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

Stream

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.
~Barbara Hall,
A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

Momentum

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction
when it could be turned into momentum.
~Frances Willard (1839 - 1898)

Riding

It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
~unknown

Sunrise

You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

~John Wooden (1910 - )

Washington Coast

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...
But I am too busy thinking about myself.
~Edith Sitwell, As quoted in The Observer (30 April 1950)
English biographer, critic, novelist, & poet (1887 - 1964)

Friends

Friends are born, not made.
~Henry Adams
US author, autobiographer, & historian (1838 - 1918)

Sunrise

“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and
life stands explained.”
~Mark Twain

Gulls on the Oregon Coast

It's always been about the experience of life and of not being passive. If something so excites my curiosity, I want to go there, be a part of whatever it is that's either pushing me or pulling me toward it. That desire for experience has made me very rich in life experience.
~Tish Grier, love and hope and sex and dreams, 04-12-2006