Shine like the whole universe is yours.

~ Rumi

Rosehip, Pemaquid Point Lighthouse Park, Bristol, Maine 2007

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.

~ Theodore N. Vail

Green Anole, Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia 2007

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

~ Walter Bagehot

American Coot, Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona 2012

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.

~ Albert Einstein

Javelina Rears, Tucson, Arizona 2010

Light tomorrow with today.

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Clark’s Nutcracker, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon 2008

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

~ Anon

Fog Drip on Sitka Spruce, Cape Meares, Oregon 2018

Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

~ James Allen

Bison, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota 2010

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

~ Oscar Wilde

Sailboat at Sunset, Ventura, California 2014

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

~ Alice Walker

Elk Fording River, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 2008

Dwell in possibility.

~ Emily Dickinson

Brown Pelican, Port Aransas, Texas 2006