honey

A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.

Winnie the Pooh

play

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

John Cleese

excellence

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

required

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Sir Winston Churchill

road

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

C. S. Lewis

deserve

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

inside

There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.

Winston Churchill

necessities

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

failure

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

perfection

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

nonsense

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

cheer

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul.

John Muir

matter

No matter what is said, I will always believe that details matter.

Brian Dowd

see

Who we are, shapes what we see.

Chris Orwig

future

Show me your friends and I'll show you your future.

Unknown

borrowed

You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it.

Unknown

new blog

I've started a new blog...

In the spirit of some of my favourite photography sites, I have decided to post [hopefully] daily diptychs (two images) and 30 words or less.

Please join me at a time for habit.

rest

Rest is not idleness, and to lie

sometimes on the grass on a summer

day listening to the murmur of water,

or watching the clouds float across

the sky, is hardly a waste of time.

John Lubboc

closed

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

first

What I must do first of all is be faithful. If I believe that the first commandment is to love God with my whole heart, mind, and soul, then I should at least be able to spend one hour a day with nobody else but God. The question as to whether it is helpful, useful, practical, or fruitful is completely irrelevant, since the only reason to love is love itself. Everything else is secondary.

Henri Nouwen