May your troubles be less, and your blessings be more,
and nothing but happiness, come through your door.

~ Irish Blessing

Purple Flower, Aix-en-Provence, France 2006

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.

~ Spanish Proverb

Waterfall, North Cascades National Park, Washington 2008

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

~ Frederick Koenig

Sapsucker, Madera Canyon, Arizona 2009

We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us…

~ Marcel Proust

Beach Trail, Long Beach, Washington 2012

My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through the earth’s loveliness.

~ Michelangelo

The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be.

~ Loesje

John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon 2008

If you don’t make mistakes you are not really trying.

~ Coleman Hawkins

Western Screech Owl, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona 2008

Nature is satisfied with little: and if she is, I am also.

~ Baruch Spinoza

Desert Cottontail, Tucson, Arizona

The soul survives its adventures.

~ G.K. Chesterton

Thistle, Catalina State Park, Arizona 2008

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Whelan Lake, California 2008