Always Anna

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

- Anais Nin

Photo by Michael Blanchard

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I’ve heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

- emily dickinson, “hope is the thing with feathers”

 

Look at yourself, like yourself, and find the positive.

— Dana Buchman

Things have been crazy lately – lots of family and apartment and work and friend drama – and I just wasn’t able to think of anything that I really wanted to blog about.

But then I got my daily quote from Real Simple and was inspired:

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!” – Dr. Seuss

I’ll be back with a vengeance next week!

“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.”

- Steven Wright

 

“Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.”

~ Helen Rowland

“Happiness is a direction, not a place.”

~ Sidney J. Harris

 

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

- Josh Billings

(“Playing Cards 001″ taken by Image-monkey)

 

“A laugh is a smile that bursts.”

- Mary H. Waldrip

(Photo shows AlexisT and me on Spring Break, Senior Year of College – aren’t we hilarous?)

“A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.”

— Michael Garrett Marino