3rin's View…

I’d rather regret the things I’ve done, than regret the things I haven’t done.

~ Lucille Ball

Boy in Mud Puddle, Crater of Diamonds State Park, Arkansas 2007

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm, wrinkles the soul.

~ Willa Cather

Cruz, rescued Mountain Lion, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona 2015

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