Love without action is meaningless. Action without love is irrelevant.

~ Deepak Chopra

Carving on Driftwood, Lincoln City, Oregon 2018

The beginning is always today.

~ Mary Shelly

Sea Lion, Fisherman’s Wharf, Monterey, California 2005

Never put the key to your happiness in someone else’s pocket.

~ Anonymous

Gateway, Newport Cliff Walk, Newport, Rhode Island 2007

One’s destination is never a place but a new way of looking at things.

~ Henry Miller

Swimming Snake, Cascade Lakes National Scenic Byway, Oregon 2008

Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go: they merely determine where you start.

~ Nido Qubein

Boardwalk, Jackson-Frazier Wetland, Corvallis, Oregon 2018

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.

~ Emily Dickinson

Sand Patterns, Lincoln City, Oregon 2018

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Colorado Chipmunk, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2010

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Raindrops on Leaves, Corvallis, Oregon 2018

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

~ Henry James

Fall Leaf, Corvallis, Oregon 2018

She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.

~ Elizabeth Edwards

Sailboat, Ventura, California 2014