“Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain.
An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind,
but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.”
~Harold V. Melchert~

“Do just once what others say you can’t do,
and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.”
~James R. Cook~

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be,
and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe~

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”
~Louisa May Alcott~

“And life is what we make it.
Always has been, always will be.”
~Grandma Moses~

“Every human soul has the germ of some flowers within;
and they would open if they could only find sunshine
and free air to expand in.”
~Lydia T. Child~

“Obstacles don’t have to stop you.
If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
~Michael Jordan~

“When you follow your bliss…..
doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors;
and where there wouldn’t be a door for anyone else.”
~Joseph Campbell~

“The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

“We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.”
~Aristotle~

“What we do today, right now,
will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.”
~Alexandra Stoddard~

“The ideals which have always shown before me
and filled me with the joy of living are goodness,
beauty and truth.”
~Albert Einstein~

“Find the seed at the bottom of your heart
and bring forth a flower.”
~Shigenori Kameoka~

© Tina's Prayer Gate
August 13, 2012