Daily Ray of Hope – The Life of Things

Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement. ~ Albert Camus Photo by Fred Moore | Convict Lake, Mono County, California

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Hope will never be silent. ~ Harvey Milk Photo by Pam Sutton | Phoenix, Arizona

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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

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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

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Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. ~ Kahlil Gibran Photo by Karen McQuilken

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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.Continue reading

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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

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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 happyContinue reading

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Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. ~ Desiderius Erasmus Photo by Andrew Mills, www.a-mills.com | North of Vesturhorn, Iceland

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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 https://flic.kr/p/PCTChS

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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

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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

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Wander into the center of the circle of wonder. ~ Hongzhi Zhengjue Photo by Alice Cahill | Sequoia National Park, California

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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

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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

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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

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Love is not consolation. It is light. ~ Simone Weil Photo by Ronnie Goyette | Great egret at Morro Bay, California

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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

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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 wallsContinue reading

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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

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Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity. ~ Kay Redfield Jamison Photo by Cheryl Strahl | Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Barter Island, Alaska

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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

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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

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In wildness is the preservation of the world. ~ Henry David Thoreau Photo by Andrew Renkert | Grizzly in Denali National Park, Alaska