Not A Bad Credo To Live By

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

-William Shakespeare

All’s Well That Ends Well

Photo: scott.m.liddell@gmail.com via www.morguefile.com

Smile

Lighten up, Francis.

                               - Stripes

Photo: My Boo

Discovered On My Morning Run

Some romantic soul tacked this to the outlook at the top of Avalanche Mountain. Discovered it on my run this morning.

Photo: View of Lake Charlevoix from Avalanche Mountain
Boyne City, MI



The Rain is Full Of Ghosts Tonight

...but the rain

Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh

Upon the glass and listen for reply.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Photo: David Wagner www.publicdomainpictures.net

Let Go

You wanna fly, you got to give up the sh** that weighs you down.

- Toni Morrison

Song of Solomon

Photo: http://www.morguefile.com/ Vera Kratochvil

What We Leave Behind

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Anatole France

Simplify

I can carry back only my little channeled whelk… to remind me of the ideal of a simplified life. To ask, how little, not how much, can I get along with? To say - is it necessary? - when I am tempted to add one more accumulation to my life, when I am pulled toward one more centrifugal activity.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A Gift From the Sea

Photo: U. S. Geological Survey

Two Things Are Infinite...

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

- Albert Einstein

Photo: NASA

I Am the Master of My Fate

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll.

I am the master of my fate;

I am the captain of my soul.

-         William Ernest Henley

Invictus

Nike of Samothrace

Art as Adoration

By painting the sky, Van Gogh was able to see it and adore it better than if he had just looked at it.

-         Brenda Ueland

If You Wish To Write

Discover Who You Are

You’re not really awake when you don’t write. And you have no idea who you are, not to mention who you aren’t.

– Pascal Mercier

Night Train to Lisbon



Photo:www.publicdomainpictures.net Elisa XYZ



Stick to Your Guns

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

-         Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird



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Portable Magic

Books are uniquely portable magic.

-         Stephen King

On Writing

Photo: Anna Cervova http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/