Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. …Albert Einstein
6:17am sunrise over 59th Place in LA
Someone asked a famous minister "What is the secret of your success?" “I just set myself on fire and people watch me burn." There is new fire in every day, and if you catch hold of it, you will brighten the lives of everyone you touch, beginning with your own. …. Alan Cohen
6:16am sunrise down 59th Place in LA
As long as you can laugh at yourself you will never cease to be amused. …Anonymous
6:15am sunrise over 59th Place in LA
Every delay is not a denial! …Michael Bernard Beckwith
6:15am sunrise down 59th Place in LA
Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be. …Shel Silverstein
6:14am sunrise-NOT with a few rare raindrops at 59th Place in LA
No one ever did anything worth doing unless he was prepared to go on with it long after it becomes something of a bore. ….Douglas Steere
6:13am sunrise over 59th Place in Los Angeles
All things are possible until they are proved impossible – and even then impossible may only be so, as of now. …Pearl S. Buck
5:56am sunrise over Celtic Park at son Aaron's in Palatine
A person filled with happiness is one who has captured a vision for his or her life that is beyond living on the “me and mine” plan. ...Michael Bernard Beckwith
5:55am sunrise at son Aaron's house in Palatine, IL
With gratitude say yes to your amazing personhood. Yes without alteration or a nagging need for self-improvement. Say yes to loving yourself with all your stuff, because Spirit made you just this way. Know with me there is a reason for your being. Perhaps you cannot put it into words but your very being is extraordinary because there is no other like you and you were made to be here at this time reading these words, and never to lose that wonderful attachment to what is eternal and sweet and kindly. That is as much “you” as anything else. You have come this far, not in spite of your experiences, but because of them. Reverend Nancy Zala
6:50am sunrise in Fishers Indiana at Jess' house
All power is from within and is therefore under our control. ...Robert Collier
6:52am sunrise down the street from daughter Jess' house in Fishers Indianas
There are only two ways to live your life. One as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. …. Albert Einstein
5:52am sunrise peeks through the fence in my Son Aaron's yard in Palatine, Illinois. Happy Birthday, Aaron!
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water. … Ernest Hemingway
6:08 sunrise-NOT at 59th Place in LA
Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows. …Henry David Thoreau
6:08 sunrise-NOT over 59th Place in LA
When all is said and done, a lot more is said than done. …Anonymous
6:07am sunrise-NOT at 59th Place in LA
We don’t want to be afraid of our shadow, we want to embrace it. If you know it’s there, it can’t run you. If you pretend it’s not there, it can take you over. …Michael Bernard Beckwith
6:07am sunrise over 59th Place in LA
I change the world by changing myself. I am changing the world by loving myself, by enjoying life, by making my personal world a dream of heaven. I change myself, and just like magic, other people start to change. …Don Miguel Ruiz
6:06am sunrise at 59th Place in La
I never figure it out too much. I feel like, as you're writing, you just find your way… I imagine different scenarios based on the things I was thinking about. …Sofia Coppola
6:05am sunrise over 59th Place in LA
Live with the beautiful side in human nature and your own life will grow more and more beautiful until you become an inspiration to all the world. …Christian D. Larson
6:05am sunrise over 59th Place in LA
How often I have found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else. …R. Buckminster Fuller
6:04am sunrise-NOT over 59th Place in LA
followed by emergence from the marine layer
I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend -- to make flights, carrying others along if you can manage it. To do this takes courage, even a certain conceit. …E.B. White