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Friday, January 15, 2010

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty



If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. ~Robert Fulghum



Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. ~M. Kathleen Casey



If you're going through hell, keep going. ~Winston Churchill



If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes. ~The Houghton Line



If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. ~Latin Proverb



Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll. ~Author Unknown

15 comments:

GreensboroDailyPhoto said...

Sylvia. I just realized how reflective and philosophical you are. And thank you for maintaining the memes! I want to start one but am afraid it will be too much work and I am not retired!!!!

Love your photos and the quotes, especially the Winston Churchill one!!!

Jan
GDP

Dimple said...

Lovely photos and words, as usual, Sylvia. I really enjoyed the Why post below, also. I kept thinking, Yeah! Why?
Thanks for coming by and commenting so regularly!

JTG (Misalyn) said...

Lovely photos and interesting & thought provoking quotations. I like the last quote. Same goes with the saying that we have to count our blessing.

A blessed weekend to you Slyvia.

chrome3d said...

In a nasty mood today, eh? I love it! I´ll take the pain and the optional suffering too. From you, always.

Anonymous said...

I love the Pain and Suffering quote LOL And I love that picture of the rose... :) Have a wonderful weekend :)

Kay said...

I do need to be reminded every so often to count those flowers and not the leaves that do eventually fall every so often. Thank you for that reminder, Sylvia. You are one of my flowers.

Anonymous said...

"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. ~Latin Proverb"

I think this is why we are stuck in the lower dimensions.

If we want to lose our troubles, I would suggest taking off one's shoes and going barefoot. By going barefoot, one has to walk gently and with care, watching and feeling every step one takes. Tieing your shoes tighter just creates more pain allowing one to forget their troubles instead of facing them with courage and honour.

Gena D said...

Lovely sky pics!
Gena @ Thinking Aloud
South Africa

joo said...

Lovely photos and lovely words!
have a beautiful weekend Sylvia:)

Stacy Post said...

I stopped by Lizzy's blog and saw you won one of her awards. Congrats! Love the pics!

Owlfarmer said...

That opening shot is gorgeous, Sylvia. It's almost scary, in a way, because it resembles what forests look like on fire.

Al said...

Great (and varied) set of photos. The skies in the first and last are amazing, and I love the beach shot too (nothing like that around my part of the world).

Susan at Stony River said...

Every one of them superb! Quotes AND photographs!

shaker said...

Great colors !
The first one is a beauty.

Dave Ingram said...

Great images here, your first sky shot is particularly good. Thanks so much for stopping by my own blog and your kind comments! See you next week!

Dave

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