Enlightenment

Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, 

and how far I have yet to go. 

 ~

Anthony Bourdain 

Imperfectly Perfect

One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. 
Perfection simply doesn't exist...without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.

~
Stephen Hawking

The Journey That Matters

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

~

Ursula K. Le Guin

To the Woods

If you have ever gone to the woods with me, 

I must love you very much.

~

Mary Oliver

I Love Boca

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. 
~

Lucille Ball 

In Search of Treasure

You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure.  It all depends on how you view your life. ~ Paulo Coelho

Before I Was Hers

You can know an animal - or a person, for that matter - in an instant, really, 

though your understanding can go on unfolding for years.

~

Mark Doty  

Summer Wonder

A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing. . .

~

Mary Oliver

Wading

"Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! 
I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!"

~

Bill Watterson

The Tonic of Wildness

We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. 

We can never have enough of nature.

~ 

Henry David Thoreau

Unique In All The World

But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. 

To me, you will be unique in all the world. 

To you, I shall be unique in all the world.

~
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Sweeter Than Soap

I have a little dog who likes to nap with me.
He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck.
He is sweeter than soap.
He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace,
which can't even bark... 

 ~

Mary Oliver 

Potcake Ready to Pounce

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

~
Mae West

A New Look

If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle. 

~
Hillary Rodham Clinton

Laughing by the Lake

Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light.

~

Frida Kahlo 

Simple Serenity

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

~
Charlotte Brontë, from Jane Eyre

Warrior for Love

You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.

~

Cheryl Strayed

Amethyst Harvest

But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.

~

Edna Ferber 

Bedroom Eyes

Her life was okay. Sometimes she wished she were sleeping with the right man instead of with her dog, but she never felt she was sleeping with the wrong dog.

~

 Judith Collas, from Change of Life

A Walk in the Woods

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

~

Rachel Carson