Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tag: inspiration
Journal Entry # 21 – To the sunshine!
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”
– Helen Keller
Journal Entry # 20 – Forgiveness
“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” – Mark Twain
Journal Entry #19 – My Sun
“I have late night conversations with the moon, he tells me about the sun and I tell him about you.”
– S.L. Gray
Journal Entry # 18 – Write Here, Write Now
“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moments passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.” – Vita Sackville-West
Journal Entry # 17 – Live and Learn!
Live as you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.-Mahatma Gandhi
Journal Entry # 16 – Get away to refill…
“People empty me. I have to get away to refill”
– Charles Burkowski
Journal Entry # 15 – Ride!
“Ride as much or as little, as long or as short as you feel. But ride” – Eddy Merckx
Journal Entry # 14 – Forty…ahem, plus 1!
“Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.” – Booth Tarkington
Journal Entry # 13 – Building the New!
‘The secret of change is to focus your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new’ – Socrates
Earth To Ash 