Presence

If something you want is slow to come to you, it can be for only one reason. You are spending more time focused upon its absence than you are about its presence.- Abraham-Hicks

Tight Place

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.  ~Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Moon Howls

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.  ~George Carlin

Haunted Corridors

One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
~Emily Dickinson

Things That Go Bump in the Night

From ghoulies and ghosties
And long-leggedy beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!
~Scottish Saying

Imagination

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.  ~Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.

Choose

If you don’t do the choosing, life will choose for you, and it may not be the choice you want. ~ Robert Anthony

It Is Not Enough

It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs. ~ Vance Havner

Fear

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. - Michael Pritchard

Heritage

His heritage to his children wasn't words or possessions, but an unspoken treasure, the treasure of his example as a man and a father.
-- Will Rogers Jr.

There Comes a Time

‎"There comes a time where we must take accountability for the role that we played in where we are in life. It is too easy to always point the finger somewhere else. It takes real courage to look deep within yourself and be honest about what you see. It would be a tragedy to spend your life blaming others for the life you never had." ~TuBlu Atlanta

Open Door

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. ~ Helen Keller

Flag Day

June 14th is Flag Day

Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness.... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty. ~Henry Ward Beecher

June 14, Flag Day

June 14th is Flag Day.  Find out Flag Day traditions, history, and how to properly dispose of tattered and worn flags in the link provided.  

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A Little More Horsepower

Most of us could stand a little more horsepower and less exhaust. - Unknown. 

New Father

"If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right." -- Bill Cosby

Father

"A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be." -- Unknown 

Any man can be a Father

 "Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad." -- Anne Geddes 

Dad

Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown.  ~Author Unknown

Tribute to Dad

Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat.  Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound.  Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together.  Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.  ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968

Memorial Day

 Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. ~ John F. Kennedy

Bridge

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” ~ Jim Rohn

Pressure

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

~Peter Marshall




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Solitude

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.  ~Colette


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FAILURE

''Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.'' 
~ Confucius

Growth

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.  ~Irish Proverb

Home

Never make your home in a place.  Make a home for yourself inside your own head.  You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things.  That way it will go with you wherever you journey.  ~Tad Williams

More or less

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.  ~Swedish Proverb

Fences

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.  ~Robert Frost

Freedom

No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free. – Buddha

Inner Spirit

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." ~Albert Schweitzer

Force of Nature

Water is the driving force of all nature.
Leonardo da Vinci 

Twinkle

It's important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle.  ~Author Unknown

Discipline

" Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” ~ Jim Rohn~

Doors

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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell 

Forgiveness

The weak can never forgive.  Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
  ~Mahatma Gandhi

Disintegration

Edith Wharton~

It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in a small way.

Off the Beaten Path

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.  ~Albert Einstein

Hand-Me Downs

Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents' pots and pans, the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape.  Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes.  A featherweight portable museum.  ~Susan Sontag

Obstacles

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."

— B.C. Forbes

Age

Abandoned BF Goodrich Factory in Akron OH 

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.  ~Douglas MacArthur

If Walls Could Speak

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other." 
Mother Teresa