Treasure this day, and treasure yourself. Truly, neither will ever happen again.

~ Ray Bradbury

Widow Skimmer Dragonfly (Libellula luctuosa), immature male, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio 2011

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

~ Fay Weldon

Lobster Buoys, Boothbay Harbor, Maine 2007

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

~ Carlos Castaneda

Cedar Waxwing, Portland, Oregon 2012

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.

~ Thomas Szasz

Potter at Red Wing Stoneware and Pottery, Red Wing, Minnesota 2009

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

~ Seneca

Mt. Hood, Oregon 2012

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of…

~ Pascal

Mule Deer Velvet Antlers, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 2008

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

~ Elbert Hubbard

Cholla Growing New Spines, Tucson, Arizona 2010

The poorest man is not he without a cent but he without a dream.

~ E.P. Bertin

Bobcat, Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona 2009

I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

~ Charlotte Bronte

Full Moon, Cooper Lake State Park, Texas 2007

A bird doesn’t sing because he has an answer. He sings because he has a song.

~ Joan Walsh Anglund

Curve-billed Thrasher, Whitewater Draw, Arizona 2008