If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

~ Anna Quindlen

Venus Flytrap, Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Folkston, Georgia 2007

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

~ Joseph Ward Kruth

Wylie, Tucson, Arizona 2016

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

~ Beverly Sills

Toad, Lake Bob Sandlin State Park, Pittsburg, Texas 2007

Low tide served me several tiny sand dollar tests recently. My newest acquisitions:

My growing collection:

Thankfully they are so tiny, they don’t take up much room!

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

~ Thomas Szasz

Queen Butterfly, Tucson, Arizona 2012

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.

~ Charles Bukowski

Whooping Crane, International Crane Foundation, Baraboo, Wisconsin 2009

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

~ Paulo Coelho

Wine Barrels, Healdsburg, California 2006

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

~ Carlos Castaneda

Lotus Blossom, Grand Rapids, Michigan 2006

One today is worth two tomorrows.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Cooper’s Hawk, Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona 2012

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

~ Roald Dahl

Boardwalk, Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky 2007