Love doesn’t make the world go ’round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

~ Franklin P. Jones

Lincoln City, Oregon 2018

I am not afraid of storms for I have learned how to sail my ship.

~ Louisa May Alcott

Tall Ship “Californian”, San Diego, California 2012

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

~ Albert Camus

Alpine wildflowers, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado 2010

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado 2010

Life is too important to take seriously.

~ Oscar Wilde

Steller’s Jay, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado 2010

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

~ e.e. cummings

Rocky Mountain Goat, Glacier National Park, Montana 2008

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

~ Aristotle

White Meadowfoam, Sebastopol, California 2008

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find within yourself all of the barriers that you have built against love.
~ Rumi

Western Tiger Swallowtail, Santa Maria, California 2008

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful then the

risk it took to blossom.

~ Anais Nin

California Flannelbush, Point Reyes National Seashore, California 2008