Music

Music is the answer. 

Without music, life would be a mistake. 

~ Friedrich Nietzche

Higher Truth

Seek the higher truth. 

The doors of wisdom are never shut. 

~ Benjamin Franklin

What matters?

Pay attention. Everything matters. 

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. 

~ William James 

Success

Aim for success. 

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. 

~ Benjamin Disreali

Learn as you go

Learn as you go. 

All life is an experiment. 

The more experiments you make the better. 

~Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Friendship

Focus gives meaning to friendship. 

Friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. 

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Decide to be happy

Decide to be happy, one moment at a time. 

A child of five would understand this. 

Send someone to fetch a child of five. 

~ Groucho Marx 

What to do?

The next step is what is indicated. 

As for accomplishments, 

I just did what I had to do as things came along. 

~ Eleanor Roosevelt  

Understanding

Observe to understand.

 Look deep into nature, 

and then you will understand everything better. 

~ Albert Einstein 

Love's Kiss

Love is beautiful. 

A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving. 

~ Cyrano de Bergerac

Healthy

Healthy & Happy 

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. 

~ Winston Churchill 

Focus

Focus determines your reality. 

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. 

~ Ansel Adams

Your word

Keep your word, it's all you really have. 

Be true to your work, your word and your friend. 

~ Henry David Thoreau 

Love it

Change it. Love it. It's your life. 

They must often change, 

who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. 

~ Confucius

Plan

Make a Plan. Write it Down. Do it. 

It takes as much energy to wish as to plan. 

~ Eleanor Roosevelt 

Laugh Today

Laughter is good for the soul. 

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious 

as laughter and good humor. 

~ Charles Dickens

Your Future

Move Forward to Your Future

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. 

~ Abraham Lincoln 

Nature's Strength

Nature's wisdom strengthens those who walk the path. 

The old people people liked to...walk with bare feet on the sacred earth...The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.

~ Chief Luther Standing Bear

Persistence Creates Change

Persistent water changes rock. 

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 

'What are you doing for others?' 

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Branch out

Branch out to experience new adventures. 

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character. 

~ Henry David Thoreau 

Experience Life

Live to experience life. 

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. 

~ John A. Locke 

Rest to Grow

Rest plays an important part in creativity. 

Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do

 is take a complete rest. 

~ Ashleigh Brilliant 

Flow

Go with the Flow

Let reality be reality. 

Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. 

~ Lao Tzu 

The Path

Focus & Practice the Path 

You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself. 

~ Buddha 

Surprise!!

Enjoy the surprises given throughout the day. 

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. 

It is not that we seize them but that they seize us. 

~ Ashley Montagu

Silence

Powerful, the silence speaks loudly. 

Silences make the real conversation between friends. 

Not the saying but never needing to say is what counts. 

~ Margaret Lee Runbeck 

Don't Remember Anything

Make life as easy as it can be. 

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. 

~ Mark Twain 

Life Speaks

Your life speaks for you. 

Actions speak louder than words. 

~ Proverb 

Honor Truth & Freedom

Honor, Truth & Freedom

A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect. 

~ Francois Fenelon

Honor You, Honor Me

Honor: to show respect & acknowledge accomplishment 

with integrity, honesty and fairness. 

Do what must be done. 

This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. 

~ George Bernard Shaw 

What does your heart tell you?

Listen with your heart. 

To love is to admire with the heart; 

to admire is to love with the mind. 

~ Thophile Gautier

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.