Wings

"The man who has no imagination

has no wings."

~ Muhammad Ali

It's My Daughter

"For decades my role model
was my mother.
Now it's my daughter.
I’m just the woman who was
lucky enough to come
between the two."
~ Anna Quindlen

Delicious to Hear

"Mere air, these words,
but delicious to hear."~ Sappho

View from the Base

View from the bottom of my mountain

"A well-ordered life
is like climbing a tower;
the view halfway up is better
than the view from the base,
and it steadily becomes finer
as the horizon expands."
~ William Lyon Phelps

Fathers!

Happy Birthday, Daddy

"Fathers! Blessed word."
~ Maria S. Cummins

All Your Choices

"Life is a sum of all your choices."

~ Voltaire

Constant Education

"All of life is a constant education."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The Art of Art

"The art of art ...
is simplicity."
~Walt Whitman

Confidence

"Confidence is contagious."

~ Vince Lombardi

Lion For a Day

"It’s better to be a lion for a day
than a sheep all your life."
~ Elizabeth Kenny

Untie the Ribbons

"Each day comes
bearing its own gifts.
Untie the ribbons. "
~ Ruth Ann Schabacker

Loneliness Is

"What loneliness is
more lonely than distrust?"~ George Eliot

Explodes the Illusions

"A crisis event often
explodes the illusions
that anchor our lives."
~ Robert Veninga

Live To the Point Of

"Live to the point of tears."
~ Albert Camus

All Colors

"All colors
are the friends of their neighbors
and the lovers of their opposites."
~Marc Chagall

Where to Look Next

"Intuition will tell
the thinking mind
where to look next."
~Jonas Salk

Do Them Better

"If you do things well,
do them better."~ Anita Roddick

Risk of Failure

"Growth always involves
the risk of failure."
~ Howard Thurman

Live Alone

"Inside myself is a place
where I live alone
and that's where you
renew your springs
that never dry up."
~ Pearl S. Buck

Empty Pockets

"Empty pockets
never held anyone back.
Only empty heads and
empty hearts can do that."
~ Norman Vincent Peale