We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children to explore and develop our talents, often unaware that we are unique, that not everyone can do what we're doing!

 

- Lynn Johnston (1947 - )

 

 



"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time."

- Abraham Lincoln

 

 

 



“All forests have their own personality. I don't just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a Central American rain forest, or comparing tracts of West Coast redwoods to the saguaro forests of the American Southwest... they each have their own gossip, their own sound, their own rustling whispers and smells. A voice speaks up when you enter their acres that can't be mistaken for one you'd hear anyplace else, a voice true to those particular tress, individual rather than of their species.”

― Charles de Lint, The Onion Girl

 

 



“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.”

― C.S. Lewis

 

 



“The terms we use for what is considered supernatural are woefully inadequate. Beyond such terms as ghost, specter, poltergeist, angel, devil, or spirit, might there not be something more our purposeful blindness has prevented us from understanding?
We accept the fact that there may be other worlds out in space, but might there not be other worlds here? Other worlds, in other dimensions, coexistent with this? If there are other worlds parallel to ours, are all the doors closed? Or does one, here or there, stand ajar?”

― Louis L'Amour, The Haunted Mesa

 

 



“I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

 

 



You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

 

- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

 

 

When I say be creative, I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.

 

- Osho

 

 

“All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat."

 

- Walter de la Mere

 



"Everything begins, and ends, at exactly the right time and place..."

 

Quote from the movie 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'.

 

 

 

Video and music by me. :)



“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”
 

― Patrick Rothfuss

 

 

 



You see the beauty inside everything. It doesn’t last long—it’s either gone in a minute, you just caught it, or else maybe it’s something so big that you normally can’t get your head around it. Like the fog in your head clears out. The world stops being a puppet show and you see the real thing. It’s probably like that all the time, but you just can’t see it, except for those little glimpses.

 

- Janet Fitch

 

 

It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

 

- Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005

 

 

No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time.

Go.

 

- Henry Rollins

 



I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

 

- E. B. White (1899 - 1985)

 

 



“Make a list of important things to do today. At the top of your list, put 'eat chocolate.' Now, you'll get at least one thing done today.”

― Gina Hayes

 

 



"We know the past but cannot control it.
We control the future but cannot know it."

- Claude Shannon

 

 



If you imagine less, less will be what you undoubtedly deserve. Do what you love, and don’t stop until you get what you love. Work as hard as you can, imagine immensities, don’t compromise, and don’t waste time. Start now. Not 20 years from now, not two weeks from now. Now.

 

- Debbie Millman

 

 



One need not be a chamber to be haunted, one need not be a house; the mind has corridors surpassing material place.

 - Emily Dickinson

 



“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”

― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

 

 



“All the mysteries of the universe are solved within the Imagination.”

― K. Ford K.

 

 



Another Amazing Animal Rescue...



No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

- Hal Borland

 



This Video Moved me to Tears...

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

 

- Thomas Edison

 

 



Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

- Jim Rohn

 



Our problem is that we make the mistake of comparing ourselves with other people. You are not inferior or superior to any human being...You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities. You are 'number one' when you do the best you can with what you have.'

- Zig Siglar

 



“There are two seasons in Scotland: June and winter.”

 

- Billy Connolly

 



The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of life is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give. The joy of life is to love.

 

- William Arthur Ward

 

 



“I think that's what we all want, in the end.
To know that we left footprints when we passed by, however briefly.
We want to be remembered."

― Mike A. Lancaster

 



We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

 

- Walt Disney

 



I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

 

- Rainer Maria Rilke

 



There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.

- Quentin Crisp

 



"See the pretty snowflakes
Falling from the sky;
On the wall and housetops
Soft and thick they lie.

On the window ledges,
On the branches bare;
Now how fast they gather,
Filling all the air.

Look into the garden,
Where the grass was green;
Covered by the snowflakes,
Not a blade is seen."

- Author Unknown, Falling Snow

 



I want to hibernate with the hedgehogs until spring. :(

 

- me!!!

 

 

 



“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.” 

 

- Carl Reiner

 



The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.

- Julia Roberts

 

 

 



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)

 

 



“Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.”

― Ann Voskamp

 



"Sometimes it is the quiet observer who see the most."

 

- Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006

 

 



“Withstanding the cold develops vigor for the relaxing days of spring and summer. Besides, in this matter as in many others, it is evident that nature abhors a quitter.”

― Arthur C. Crandall

 



“She had never known that ice could take on so many shades of blue: sharp lines of indigo like the deepest sea, aquamarine shadows, even the glint of blue-green where the sun struck just so.”

― Malinda Lo, Huntress

 

 



There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

 

- Sean O'Faolain (1900 - 1991)

 

 



"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

- Edgar Allen Poe



The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

 

- Dee Hock

 



"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."

 

- George Eliot (1819 - 1880).

 

 



“The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion...”

 
― William Makepeace Thackeray

 

 

 



"Clouded with snow
The cold winds blow,
And shrill on leafless bough
The robin with its burning breast
Alone sings now.

The rayless sun,
Day's journey done,
Sheds its last ebbing light
On fields in leagues of beauty spread
Unearthly white.

Thick draws the dark,
And spark by spark,
The frost-fires kindle, and soon
Over that sea of frozen foam
Floats the white moon."

- Walter de La Mare, Winter 

 

 



“I must have flowers, always, and always.”

― Claude Monet

 

 



“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”

― Henry David Thoreau

 



Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

 

- Sidney J. Harris