Drinking or Gargling?

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge;

others just gargle.

Dr. Robert Anthony

Buying Happiness

Whoever said you can't buy happiness

forgot little puppies.

Gene Hill

A little irony if you head to Easy Street today.

Doing Today

If you are still talking about what you did yesterday,

you haven't done much today.

More Than A Building

The church is not a building.

The church is not a steeple.

The church is not a resting place.

The church is the people.

Avery and Marsh

"I Am the Church" lyrics

In the Garden of Verses

I have a little shadow that

goes in and out with me,

and what can be the use of him

is more than I can see.

"A Child's Garden of Verses"

Robert Louis Stevenson

To Kill A Mockingbird

Quote from "To Kill A Mockingbird"

The Journey

Focus on the journey,

not the destination.

Joy is found not in finishing an activity,

but in doing it.

Greg Anderson

Memories

Memory is a way of holding on

to the things you love,

the things you are,

the things you never want to lose.

"The Wonder Years"

Earth Day

Every day is Earth Day.

(Earth Day, April 22, 2010)

April Days

The sun was warm, the wind was chill.

You know how it is with an April day.

Robert Frost

Advice from Ferris Bueller

Life moves pretty fast.

If you don't stop to look around once in awhile

you could miss it.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Look Up!

Believers, look up!

Heaven is nearer than you think!

Billy Graham

Spring Blooms- Lilacs

If you've never been thrilled

 to the very edges of your soul

by a flower in spring bloom,

maybe your soul has never been in bloom.

Terri Guillemets

River Philosophy

Then as it was,

then again it will be,

and though the course will change sometimes,

rivers always reach the sea.

Led Zeppelin

Quest: Sun

Sunshine is my quest.

Winston Churchill

My Dog's View

My goal in life is to be as good of a person

as my dog already thinks I am.

Catch Souls

Joy is a net of love

by which you can catch souls.

Mother Theresa of Calcutta

Slowing Down

We live in a fast-paced society.

Walking slows us down.

Robert Sweetgall

Leisure

There's never enough time

to do all the nothing you want.

Bill Waterson- Calvin and Hobbs

Spring Fever

It's spring fever.

That is what the name of it is.

And when you've got it, you want -

oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want,

 but it just fairly makes your heart ache,

you want it so!

Mark Twain

Attitude of Cheerfulness

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind,

filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Joseph Addison

Nourishment for the Soul

Bread feeds the body,

but flowers feed the soul.

The Koran

Beauty is in the eye and the heart

There is a road from the eye to the heart

that does not go through the intellect.

G.K. Chesterton

Little Eyes Are Watching

Don't worry that children never listen to you;

worry that they are always watching you.

Robert Fulghum

Climbing Trees

Climb a tree.

It gets you closer to heaven.

Good Old Days

Enjoy yourself.

These are the good old days you're going to miss

in the years ahead.

Morning Has Broken

Mine is the sunlight, mine is the morning

Born of the one light, Eden saw play

Praise with elation, praise every morning

God's recreation of the first day

Eleanor Farjeon

Bloom! Bloom!

There came a time when the risk

to remain tight in the bud

was more painful than risk it took

to blossom.

Anais Nin

Wonders

There are no seven wonders of the world
 in the eyes of a child.

There are seven million.

Walt Streightiff