Quotes That Inspire Me

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, 
concentrate the mind on the present moment."
Buddha 

Look at that face! This little guy was peering over a cactus plant on my morning walk. What incredible creatures are out there. I love seeing all this detail. He was watching me and staying on guard. My favorite thing is when the insects relax around me and stop hopping away or flying off. Sometimes they just let me get within an inch of them and I just click away on my camera. 

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
Friedrich Nietzsche 

All the photos you see on today's blog are from the last few days.

"We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise 
our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give 
and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy,
 healing, and inclusion."
Max de Pree 

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. 
Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
Harvey Fierstein 

(I love this quote.)

"People living deeply have no fear of death."
Anais Nin 

This bug was about an 1/4 inch! It was so tiny I could barely see it ....

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."
Henry David Thoreau 

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. 
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
Albert Camus

Just a beautiful plant ... (no bugs)

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage
 is also what it takes to sit down and listen." 
~Winston Churchill

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or 
usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."
Rabindranath Tagore

"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar."
~Raymond Lindquist

This is the tiniest bug. I think it's only an 1/8 of an inch and so light colored that it's hard to get the camera to focus ...

"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."
Mohandas Gandhi 

"The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, 
share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile 
at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me 
continual spiritual exercises."
Leo Buscaglia 

"Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. 
This is the secret of success."
Swami Sivananda 

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time."
~Betty Smith~

"Too bad all the people who know how to run this country 
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair."
George Burns (1896-1996)

Life is "trying things to see if they work"
- Ray Bradbury

(I live by those words!)

"In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already 
ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves." 
Buddha

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."
~Robert Green Ingersoll~

This gives you an idea of the little guy's size. I saw a grasshopper no bigger than this fella's eye!

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
Winston Churchill

Grasshoppers come in so many different colors.

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

Winston Churchill

"No one can go back and make a brand new start. 
Anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."
~Unknown~

Bug walking on my hand. It was about the size of the point on a needle!

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Edison