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

- Anais Nin

Photo by Michael Blanchard

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

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