Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.  ~Lemony Snicket

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.  ~James Openheim

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
- Leon Joseph Suenens

The storm starts

When the drops start dropping.

When the drops stop dropping

Then the storm starts stopping.

Dr. Seuss

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. 

Winston Churchill

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
-Muhammad Ali

Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.

~ Clarence Clemons

A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed–I well know. For it’s a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Georges Clemenceau

Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number. 

~ Author Unknown

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

~ Jacques Barzun

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.  ~Frank A. Clark

 

Note: The previous pictures were taken with my phone, using Hipstamatic.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

 

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

~ Robert McCloskey