Early To Rise

"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature."
Anne Frank

                                                      

With All My Heart

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
-Victor Hugo

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.
-John Bunyan

God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.
-Mother Theresa

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
-Tennessee Williams

At the Waters Edge

“We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain.”

-Henry David Thoreau

Following the light of the sun,

we left the Old World.

-Christopher Columbus

Ships are the nearest things to dreams

that hands have ever made.

-Robert N. Rose

You can't change the wind, you can, however, adjust your sails.

-Unknown

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

-William Shedd

There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea,
whosegently awful stirrings seems to speak of some hidden soul beneath...

-Herman Melville

A Warm Sunny Smile

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles.  It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.  ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You

If you don't have a smile, I'll give you one of mine.  ~Author Unknown

I have a tickle in my brain.  And it keeps making the corners of my mouth point toward the heavens.  ~Jeb Dickerson

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.  ~Mother Teresa

Captivating

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...  ~Susan Polis Shutz 

"You belong among the wildflowers
You belong in a boat out at sea
You belong with your love on your arm
You belong somewhere you feel free."
-Tom Petty, "Wildflowers"

"It's a Cupcake Kinda Day" - Author Unknown

I Miss You

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

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.  "Pooh!" he whispered.  "Yes, Piglet?"  "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw.  "I just wanted to be sure of you."  ~A.A. Milne

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.  ~Dinah Craik

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.  ~Grace Pulpit

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had.  ~Author Unknown

Childhood

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.  ~Mencius, Book IV


I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.  ~Bob Seger, "Against the Wind"

The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.  ~Rebecca Pepper Sinkler