Brick Walls

The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. [They're] there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.

-         ­Randy Pausch

The Last Lecture

Photo: Tree and Stone Wall, Petr Kratochvil, www.publicdomainpictures.net

Faith

Faith is knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

-         Khalil Gabran

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Never Die Easy

I want to be remembered as a person who … left everything he had out there on the football field, did everything he possibly could for the team to win, not for himself. For the team to win.

Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okay to lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving it your best.

- Walter Payton

Delicious Autumn!

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

– George Eliot

Photo: Autumn Fire by Mark Coldren www.publicdomainpictures.net

What Heaven Is

The connections we make in the course of a life – maybe that’s what heaven is.

- Mister Rogers

Photo: Lovin my baby John John in Rothenburg, Germany
July 2009

The World Is A Great Mirror

The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.

-         Thomas Dreier

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Those Pslams ARE Depressing

God: What are you doing now?
King Arthur: Averting our eyes, oh Lord.
God: Well, don't. It's just like those miserable psalms, always so depressing. Now knock it off!

-         Monty Python and the Holy Grail

God?

Writing Is Its Own Reward

That thing you had to force yourself to do – the actual act of writing – turns out to be the best part. It’s like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.

-         Annie Lamott

Bird by Bird

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