I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.
~ Alexandra Stoddard
Gifts
(Colorado River. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.)
Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.
~ Mary Ann Brussat
(Sunrise. Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Florida)
The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that … Accept that it’s unknown, and it’s plain sailing.
~ John Lennon
(First-day rainbow. Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Florida.)
The wonder of a moment in which there is nothing but an upwelling of simple happiness is utterly awesome.
~ Regina Sara Ryan
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
(Frost on the locust tree.)
The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.
~ John Burroughs
(Sunlight on snow and hoar frost.)
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
~ Rachel Carson
(Winter’s blanket.)
Kindness is like snow — it beautifies everything it covers.
~ Author unknown
(Sunlight and shadows on snow in black & white.)
Simple style is like white light. It is complex, but its complexity is not obvious.
~ Anatole France
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have eyes to see them.
~ John Ruskin
Bountiful Healing 