Monday, July 26, 2010

honey

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

Winnie the Pooh

Sunday, July 25, 2010

play

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

John Cleese

Saturday, July 24, 2010

excellence

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

Aristotle

Friday, July 23, 2010

required

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

Sir Winston Churchill

Thursday, July 22, 2010

road

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

C. S. Lewis

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

deserve

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

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

inside

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

Winston Churchill

Monday, July 19, 2010

necessities

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

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

Sunday, July 18, 2010

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

Saturday, July 17, 2010

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

Friday, July 16, 2010

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

Thursday, July 15, 2010

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

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

matter

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

Brian Dowd

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

see

Who we are, shapes what we see.

Chris Orwig

Monday, July 12, 2010

future

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

Unknown

Sunday, July 11, 2010

borrowed

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

Unknown

Saturday, July 10, 2010

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

Friday, July 09, 2010

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

Thursday, July 08, 2010

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