Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver,The Summer Day "A life without love is like a year without summer." - Swedish Proverb "T'is now the...
Variant: “My motto has always been a career open to all talents, without distinctions of birth.” On St. Helena, Napoleon consciously strove to define how posterity would remember him. He said this on March 3, 1817 to the British doctor Barry O’Meara, who was sympathetic to him. Poster...
140b. The steady buzzzzzzz of the Katydid chorus, and the bass solo of the croaking Frog - a summer night's serenade. 140c. "Leaves of Grass" Some fruits of Walt Whitman's spirit. Walt, ... thanks, thanks, thanks! 140d. Ripening grapes in the summer sun - reason enough to plod...
One error in judgment does not a life define. Mistakes are a powerful source of life lessons. Giving in to the fear of failure is always a mistake. The most powerful life lessons often begin as mistakes. Don't seek to erase errors of the past; learn from them instead. Your mis...
People who constantly complain, blame, and refuse to take responsibility for their lives do not have a growth mindset. Growth-oriented people don't allow their failures to define their identity; they learn from them and come back stronger as a result. ...
Regardless of how you define family, your feeling of love and togetherness is forever at the core of the unit. Our shared love and devotion to each other is what makes us a family. Sharing bloodlines doesn't bond families together. Love does. Choosing to be a family together takes ...
"How can you explain that you need to know that the trees are still there, and the hills and the sky? Anyone knows they are. How can you say it is time your pulse responded to another rhythm, the rhythm of the day and the season instead of the hour and the minute? No, you canno...
It is an amazing, impassioned work, especially considering it was published well before the automobile came to define the limits of our experience of place. It is a call to participation in the world, for living among that which is untamed." 4 - Zane Parker "In a sense everything that ...
"With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes along, though freedom remains total with each step: any tempting side road can be turned into an impulse, or any wild patch of woods can be explored. The...