Trek

"Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living."

Miriam Beard

Station

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of travelling."

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Lamp

"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience."

Patrick Henry

Tower

"When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter."

Logan Pearsall Smith

Abnormal

"The only abnormality is the incapacity to love."

Anais Nin

Wall

"There are days when solitude, for someone my age, 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

Boat

"When the tide of life turns against you, and the current upsets your boat. Don't waste time on what might have been, just lie on your back and float."

Anon

Discarded

"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."

Thomas Alva Edison

Money

"Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver."

Ayn Rand

For Macroday

Direction

"Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation."

William H. Sheldon

Structure

"That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy."

Freda Adler

Light

"Where glowing embers through the room teach light to counterfeit a gloom."

John Milton

Vision

"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown."

K Denis Waitley

Clarity

"More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity."

Francois Gautier

Baggage

"Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough."

Charles Dudley Warner

Conclusion

"A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking."

Paul Dickson

Masculine

"Know the masculine, keep to the feminine."

Lao Tzu

For Photo Friday

Garden

"To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed. That can make life a garden."

Goethe

For the Thursday Challenge -'Pink' - there is a little bit coming through :0)

Unwanted

"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."

Mother Theresa

Encounter

"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

Ability

"Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary."

Ray Knight

Walking

"All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking."

Friedrich Nietzsche

Yearning

"There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage."

Barbara Lazear Ascher

See

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

Henry David Thoreau

Youth

"Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

Franz Kafka

Caution

"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions."

Alfred Adler

Dream

"When to soft sleep we give ourselves away, and in a dream as in a fairy bark, drift on and on through the enchanted dark to purple daybreak--little thought we pay. To that sweet bitter world we know by day."

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Feeling

"Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart."

Johann Von Schiller

Think

"To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say."

Rene Descartes

Climb

"I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength."

Sextus Propertius

Past

"Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him."

Friedrich Nietzsche

Harmony

"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony."

Thomas Merton

It's a black & white sort of day.

Fence

"To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in."

Mark van Doren

Meaning

"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."

Thornton Wilder

Home

"Home" is any four walls that enclose the right person."

Helen Rowland

For Macroday

Frozen

"Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life."

Charles Lamb

Confusion

"Sometimes in our confusion, we see not the world as it is, but the world though eyes blurred by the mind."

Anon

Wreck

"A careless word may kindle strife. A cruel word may wreck a life. A timely word may level stress. A loving word may heal and bless."

Anon

Pain

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."

Carl Jung

Baby

"Babies are such a nice way to start people."

Don Herold

For Photo Friday

Don't panic ;-)

Aware

"To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright."

Walter Benjamin

Absurd

"Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true."

Luigi Pirandello

Any ideas what this sign could possibly mean?

Wrinkle

"What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each love one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth as I am now."

Lord Byron

For the Thursday Challenge

Tall

"You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.

Harriet Woods

Focus

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

Mark Twain

Contentment

"The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach."

Lin Yu-t'ang

Smile

"Smiles form the channels of a future tear."

Lord Byron

Suspicion

"Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness."

Hosea Ballou

Itch

"I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch."

Gilda Radner

Reflection

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest."

Confucius