Invested

When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute. - Simon Sinek Perhaps when people are spiritually invested, they stop wanting and start being?

Switzerland — at Espace Jeunes des Franches-Montagnes.

Leaders

"The best leaders don’t create followers; they create more leaders." - Tom Peters

Venus Transit

The next transit of Venus, when the planet Venus will appear as a small, dark disk moving across the face of the Sun, will begin at 22:09 UTC on 5 June 2012, and will finish at 04:49 UTC on 6 June.[1] Depending on the position of the observer, the exact times can vary by up to ±7 minutes. Transits of Venus are among the rarest of predictable celestial phenomena and occur in pairs eight years apart[2]: the previous transit having been in June 2004, the next pair of transits will not occur until December 2117 and December 2125. Live Wecast http://www.exploratorium.edu/venus/?gclid=CMeNjJyas7ACFaEJRQodGy08UA

Plant the seed

Plant the seed of positivity into your mind, nourish it daily with love & happiness will flower, as fear begins to die.- unknown

Queenstown

Joanne Gregory carries the Olympic torch on a hand drawn canal boat across the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, a UNESCO World Heritage Site on May 30 in Llangollen, Wales. The Olympic flame is now on day 12 of a 70-day relay involving 8,000 torchbearers covering 8,000 miles.

Laugh

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ~Kurt Vonnegut

Patterns

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. And if you project forward from that pattern, then sometimes you can come up with something. - Robert M. Pirsig

Life is change

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely." - Karen Kaiser Clark

Roman ampi-theater

Seychelles

Piazza Del Campo

Earth has no sorrow that Love cannot cure

Hope of the penitent, fadeless and pure; Here speaks the Comforter, tenderly saying, Earth has no sorrow that Love cannot cure." Christian Science Hymnal, No. 40

God's world

North American Nebula

Blame

You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people. -Willie Nelson

Georgian Sunset

Memorial Day

“Heroes are something we create, something we need. It's a way for us to understand what is almost incomprehensible, how people could sacrifice so much for us, but for my dad and these men the risks they took, the wounds they suffered, they did that for their buddies, they may have fought for their country but they died for their friends.” – James Bradley (Thomas McCarthy)

Shadows of this life

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

Eclipse from Outer space

Brian Stokes Mitchell "Grateful"

Grateful - Brian Stokes Mitchell - Mormon Tabernacle Choir Elida and I went to see BSM live with the San Diego symphony during Christmas in 2010. We have been fans ever since, and used his music during our wedding ceremony. Lyrics to Grateful (John Bucchino) I've got a roof over my head I've got a warm place to sleep Some nights I lie awake counting gifts Instead of counting sheep I've got a heart that can hold love I've got a mind that can think There may be times when I lose the light And let my spirits sink But I can't stay depressed When I remember how I'm blessed Grateful, grateful Truly grateful I am Grateful, grateful Truly blessed And duly grateful In a city of strangers I got a family of friends No matter what rocks and brambles fill the way I know that they will stay until the end I feel a hand holding my hand It's not a hand you can see But on the road to the promised land This hand will shepherd me Through delight and despair Holding tight and always there Grateful, grateful Truly grateful I am Grateful, grateful Truly blessed And duly grateful It's not that I don't want a lot Or hope for more, or dream of more But giving thanks for what I've got Makes me happier than keeping score In a world that can bring pain I will still take each chance For I believe that whatever the terrain Our feet can learn to dance Whatever stone life may sling We can moan or we can sing Grateful, grateful Truly grateful I am Grateful, grateful Truly blessed And duly grateful Truly blessed And duly grateful

Your reputation

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

- John Wooden

 

Neretva River in Mostar, Bosnia

wisdom

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whistler fire skier

Happiness

We've got this one amazing life to live... take full advantage and live it with happiness.

Appreciate Gratitude @2thankfollows you

kayaking in Outlet Falls, WA

Facts vs Wisdom

The possession of facts is knowledge, the use of them is wisdom.

 -Thomas Jefferson

Lake Wanka, NZ

Never walk alone

Adjust the sails

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

 

Bertha Calloway

Let them go

"When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied 

to anybody who leaves you, and it doesn't mean that they are bad people. 

It just means that their part in your story is over."

- The Wonder Years  

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Throne of Zeus

Dolphins

One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.

John James Audubon

Hawaiin dolphins at play

Your heart

“It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.” - unknown

Cyprus in Tuscany

Wise

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

 

William Arthur Ward

Ice Lake Mountain

Mothers

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.  ~Tenneva Jordan


Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.  ~Mildred B. Vermont


A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.  ~Peter De Vries


The phrase "working mother" is redundant.  ~Jane Sellman


To my daughter Nicolle, who is due with her first child in July:

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.  She never existed before.  The woman existed, but the mother, never.  A mother is something absolutely new.  ~Rajneesh

Miss my mom everday! Love you forever!

A good life

A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, smile often, dream big, laugh a lot and realize how blessed you are for what you have!! 

- unknown

Lupin flowers in central California

Advice

“Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand." - Unknown

Paid for practice

"Rodney I get paid to practice. I play the games for free."- Junior Seau

Christ the redeemer -supermoon over Rio

What we have

We tend to forget that happiness is also recognizing & appreciating what we do have.

Appreciate Gratitude ‏ @2thank

Bodiam Castle, East Sussex

Shoot for the moon

"Shoot for the moon; even if you miss you'll land among the stars"

- Ghandi

Parthenon Super Moon

Dawn Nice, France

Transition

If you look at the history of the game it has happened to every great player: Joe Montana, Jerry Rice and Marcus Allen. You can go down the list, that there is transition.”

Junior Seau

Seau Paddle out

 

God forbid that we add to the pain of someone who has lost a loved one through the tragedy of suicide, by making a judgment about their eternal destiny. God is the ultimate Judge, and we should therefore leave the issue in His hands. It would be wise to follow the biblical example and not come to any verdict in the case of suicide.

Argument

I don't have to attend every argument I'm Invited to."- Unknown.

Quad Rainbow