Meanwhile…
Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.
~ Albert Camus
Photo by Fred Moore | Convict Lake, Mono County, California
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.
~ Maya Angelou
Photo by Beverly Zuerlein, Moon and Back Photography | Bull moose at Warm Springs, near Antelope Flats, Wyoming
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
~ E.E. Cummings
Photo by Pam Sutton | Great blue heron in Scottsdale, Arizona
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
~ Kahlil Gibran
You’ve discovered a wellspring, simply allow it to flow and it will fill your world. Don’t try to keep a safe distance so as to see what happens. Don’t wait to be certain before you take a step. What you give, you will receive, although it might sometimes come from the place you least expect.
~ Paulo Coelho
Photo by Andrew Renkert | Kenai, Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska
An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.
~ Herman Melville
Photo by Darrell Robinson | Kihei, Maui, Hawaii
Come out into the world about you, be it either wide or limited. Sympathize, not in thought only, but in action, with all about you. Make yourself known and felt for something that would be loved and missed, in twenty thousand little ways, if you were to die; then your life will be a happy one, believe me.
~ Charles Dickens
Photo by Darrell Robinson | A view of Mt. Shasta reflected in Lake Siskiyou, Mt. Shasta, California
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
Photo by Andrew Mills, www.a-mills.com | North of Vesturhorn, Iceland
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes – every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Photo by Jim Maloney | The Metolius River, a tributary of the Deschutes River in Central Oregon
Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
~ Martin Luther King Jr.
Photo by John Behrends | Along the Oregon coast at Shore Acres State Park, Oregon
Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.
Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.
Their language has been lost.
But not the gestures.
~ Vera Nazarian
Photo by Tom Elliott | Sauk County, Wisconsin
Wander into the center of the circle of wonder.
~ Hongzhi Zhengjue
Photo by Alice Cahill | Sequoia National Park, California
You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.
~ Ella Maillart
Photo by Mark Stevens | Mica View Trail, Saguaro National Park, Tucson, Arizona
While with an eye made quiet by the power
Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,
We see into the life of things.
~ William Wordsworth
Photo by Tony Varela | Prairie Creek Redwoods Sate Park, California
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
~ Alice Walker
Photo by Cheryl Strahl | Polar bear in the Arctic Ocean near Kaktovik on Barter Island, Alaska
Love is not consolation. It is light.
~ Simone Weil
Photo by Ronnie Goyette | Great egret at Morro Bay, California
You’ve discovered a wellspring, simply allow it to flow and it will fill your world. Don’t try to keep a safe distance so as to see what happens. Don’t wait to be certain before you take a step. What you give, you will receive, although it might sometimes come from the place you least expect.
~ Paulo Coelho
Photo by Andrew Renkert | Kenai, Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska
Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
~ Anne Frank
Photo by Fred Moore | Escalante, Utah
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
~ Robert Kennedy
Photo by Andrew Mills, www.a-mills.com | Vesturhorn, Iceland
Sierra Club Daily Ray of Hope
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. ~ Rachel Carson
Photo by Andrew Castellano | Hudson Bay near Churchill, Canada
Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
Photo by Cheryl Strahl | Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Barter Island, Alaska
Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Photo by Andrew Mills, a-mills.smugmug.com | Paradise, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington
Look around. Look at what we have. Beauty is everywhere—you only have to look to see it.
~ Bob Ross
Photo by Brad Frick | Taken from the top of Mt. Tallac, southwest of Lake Tahoe, in El Dorado County, California
In wildness is the preservation of the world.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Photo by Andrew Renkert | Grizzly in Denali National Park, Alaska
