We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.
Angeles Arrien
“Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they seem to have been so when we look back on them; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years that succeed them.”
Robert Southey
Paul took this from our driveway on August 16, 2016.
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
John Milton
Paradise Lost
“You know that feeling when you just have to go out and find someone new or the world will die on you?”
John Le Carre, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
“Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.” Robert Holden
“You don’t let go of an unhealthy relationship because you stop caring about them. You let go because you finally start caring about you.”
Charles Orlando
A Karaoke Video of an Olympic Dressage Horse Dancing to Carlos Santana and Rob Thomas’s “Smooth”
Olympics Karoake
It is our choices … that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J.K. Rowling,
writer
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882).
“It’s not about saying the right things. It’s about doing the right things.”
Unknown
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