The Softer Side of Spring

ship. drink. moth. bling.

I can’t change the direction of the wind,
but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
~ Jimmy Dean ~ 

 

phone.

 I do not seek.  I find. 
~ Pablo Picasso ~

paint.

 Every artist was first an amateur.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

play

The happiest life is that which constantly exercises
and educates what is best in us.
~ Hamerton ~

drink.

 Life is a pure flame,
and we live by an invisible sun within us.
~ Sir Thomas Brown ~

lounge.

 Every day do something that will
inch you closer to a better tomorrow.
~ Doug Firebaugh ~

cook.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts.
To believe in the heroic makes heroes. 
~ Benjamin Disraeli ~ 

relax.

 There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, 
or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
~ A. P. Stanley ~

swim.

Go the extra mile.  It’s never crowded. 

~ Unknown ~

drive.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go,
but almost always end up where I need to be.
~ Douglas Adams ~

 

indulge.

 What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
~ Oscar Wilde ~

cuddle.

We make a living by what we get,
but we make a life by what we give.
~ Winston Churchill ~

n.y.c.

 Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
~ Jack Canfield ~

twirl.

 Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
~ Chinese Proverb ~

plant.

Why not go out on a limb?
Isn’t that where the fruit is?
~ Frank Scully ~

 Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.
~ Plato ~

party.

 Live each day as if your life had just begun.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~

pile.

 The difference between try and triumph is
a little umph.
~ Unknown ~

play.

 The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
~ Elbert Hubbard ~

fly.

 To me every hour of the day and night
is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
~ Walter Chrysler ~

style.

 It is in your moments of decision that your
destiny is shaped.
~ Anthony Robbins ~

beauty.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.
~ Joseph Joubert ~ 

fight.

 Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.
~ J. K. Rowling ~

sit.

 There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
~ Willa Cather ~

knit.

 If we all did the things we are capable of,
we would astound ourselves.
~ Thomas Edison ~

bloom.

 Even if I knew that tomorrow the world
would go to pieces,
I would still plant my apple tree. 
~ Martin Luther ~

seat.

 Most of the shadows of this life are caused 
by our standing in our own sunshine.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

pose.

I am only one, but I am one.
I cannot do everything, but I can do something.
And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. ~ Edward Everett Hale ~

eat.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are
tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ 

map.

 Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
~ Helen Keller ~

shade.

 How wonderful it is that nobody
need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
~ Anne Frank ~

 

 Sally Jean