Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

~ Anon.

Broadhead Skink male, Jekyll Island, Georgia 2007

Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business, why not find a better job?

~ Hafiz

Exhausted Boy, National Mall, Washington D.C. 2007

The next time your mind wanders, follow it around for a while.

~ Jessica Masterson

Trail of the Cedars Bridge, North Cascades National Park, Washington 2008

We’re not meant to fit in. We’re meant to stand out.

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Vermilion Flycatcher, Tucson, Arizona 2008

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

~ Maya Angelou

Leafy Spurge Hawkmoth caterpillar, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota 2010

It’s not what happens to you. It’s what you do before it, during it, and after it.

~ Alan Weiss

Desert Bluebell, Tucson, Arizona 2008

If you make a mistake, don’t live in it.

~ Benjamin Alire Saenz

Tarantula Wasp with Tarantula, Tucson, Arizona 2012

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

~ Bruce Lee

Petroglyphs featuring Horseback Riders, Arches National Park, Utah 2006

I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure. It is: Try to please everybody.

~ Herbert Bayard Swope

Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnake, Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona 2014

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

~ Johann W. von Goethe

Western Meadowlark, Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge, California/Oregon 2008