Love makes you see a place differently

Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. If you know one landscape well, you will look at all other landscapes differently. And if you learn to love one place, sometimes you can also learn to love another."
~Anne Michaels

Trueness

You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward trueness at last.
~Vernon Howard

Hope and Peace

Hope is a thing with feathers
that perches on your soul.
~Emily Dickinson

Seashells

I have a large seashell collection,
which I keep scattered on beaches
all over the world.
~Steven Wright

Eyes open

There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
~Jawaharlal Nehru
Indian politician (1889 - 1964

Sky Watch Friday

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
~Unknown

Going down the road

A pony is a childhood dream,
a horse is an adulthood treasure.
~Rebecca Carrol

Love

Love is the big booming beat which covers up
the noise of hate.
~Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-15-04

Each forward step

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
~John Lancaster Spalding

Relax

"Tension is who you think you should be.
Relaxation is who you are."
~Chinese proverb

Call back Summertime

I'd like to
call back Summertime
and have her stay
for just another
month or so...

~Joni Mitchell
Urge for Going

Happy as you are

You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.
Jeph Jacques,
Questionable Content webcomic,
#352, 05-04-05

Autumn too long

"a wind has blown the rain away
the sky away and all the leaves away,
and the trees stand. I think i too have known
autumn too long."
~e.e. cummings
(American Poet)