Shining My Lantern: 05/26/09

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

A Few Reasons Why I Love Spring...

Our flowering tree

My bleeding hearts

Miniature irises...

Each day, everything is different...the world is coming to life as we speak. Plants that were only nudging their way out of the ground yesterday are an inch or more high today. There is wonder all around us.

Favorite Quotes

"Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot."
~ Cormac McCarthy

To love is to recognize yourself in another.

Life will send you whatever is needed for the evolution of your concsciousness.
~Eckhart Tolle

You become what you think about all day long.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forgiveness is the fragrance a violet leaves on the heel that has crushed it.
~Mark Twain

It is, and always was, all perfect.
~Wayne Dyer

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

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
~Howard Thurman

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
~Margaret Atwood

You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
~Wayne Gretzky

My advice to all is this: Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
~T.H. Huxley