The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. Hope only makes sense when it doesn’t make sense to be hopeful. This is your century. Take it and run as if your life depends on it. …From commencement address by Paul Hawken
6:54am sunrise in LA
If one wishes to spend one's life as a writer, it is a dangerous undertaking on the most primitive level. For, it seems to me, the act of writing with serious intent involves enormous personal risk. It entails the ongoing courage for self-discovery. It means one will walk forever on the tightrope, with each new step presenting the possibility of learning a truth about oneself that is too terrible to bear. …Harlan Ellison
6:54am sunrise in LA
Energy is life force, our natural power or strength. It resides in our breathing. When our breathing changes, our emotions change, our movements change, and our perception of the world changes accordingly. When our vital energy is obscured by strong emotions, opinions, and concepts, our perspective narrows and our strength diminishes. When we are free of such blockages, our power is free and expansive. …Irini Rockwell
6:55am sunrise from our backyard in LA
I write to discover what I think. …Joan Didion
6:55am sunrise from the backyard in LA
Blessed are those whose identity is shaken so that they can begin to discover that which can never be shaken. ….Michael Bernard Beckwith
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I seem to know that whatever is occurring is to bring me to the revelation of my own completeness…and so it is. …Barbara Taylor
6:56am sunrise from our backyard in LA
The dream, to be valid, must be impossible. Not just difficult. Impossible. Which implies an ideal never attainable but nevertheless stubbornly to be pursued. A striving for what cannot be achieved but still is worth the effort. …Dale Wasserman
6:57am sunrise on dearest Darling Granddaughter Charli's 2nd Birthday...Happy Birthday to Charli!
If you are evolving into a more loving, more compassionate, less violent person, then you are moving in the right direction. Like me, you may become distracted, make wrong turns at times, lost until you find the way back. It may seem as if you're taking two steps forward and then one step backwards, but that's all right. That's how it works when we're in human form. …Brian Weiss
6:57am sunrise-NOT over our neighbor-across-the-street's house
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. …Albert Einstein
6:57am sunrise from our own backyard in LA
And the magical thing is that the more we become accepting of ourselves and others, the more loving we become, the less judgmental and critical, the more the people around us, including ourselves, are able to change. …Marie T. Russell
6:58 sunrise-NOT in a rare rain in usually sunny Southern California
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon. …Dalai Lama
6:58am sunrise from our backyard in LA
Three cheers, three cheers for the one in a hundred, but God bless the other 99! …Barry Manilow
6:59am sunrise from my own backyard in LA
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. …Albert Einstein
6:59 sunrise over LA
When we dare to fully dance our individual steps in the overall design of existence, we enliven the universe. …Michael Bernard Beckwith
6:59am sunrise in LA
It may be that those who do most, dream most. …Stephen Leacock
6:59am sunrise at 59th Place in LA
When you're rewriting, you have to respect the writer who broke the page. If it wasn't for that, you wouldn't be doing those rewrites. A blank page, that's the toughest thing in the world. …Bob Brummer
6:59am sunrise over our backyard in LA
God’s will is just beyond our plans. …Rickie Byars Beckwith
6:59am sunrise from the backyard in LA
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. …Epictetus
6:59am sunrise at 59th Place in LA
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. …Ivy Baker Priest
6:59am sunrise from the backyard in LA
I did things because I forgot they were impossible. …Shane Black