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[Teri]

October sunshine bathed the park with such a melting light that it had the dimmed impressive look of a landscape by an old master. Leaves, one, two at a time, sidled down through the windless air. ~Elizabeth Enright

[Teri]

My father showed me that the benefits of bicycling run much deeper than physical fitness. What we've stumbled across is a basic world rhythm imitated by those pedals spinning round. There's a youth force living in the suspended energy of that age-old diamond frame. ~Joe Kita

[JohnT]

“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”

― e.e. cummings
(Edward Estlin "E. E." Cummings, often styled as e e cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, as well as novels, plays and essays. Born 1894, died 1962.)

[Teri]

Life may take everything out of my days, but the real things remain. You may destroy my castles, but I have the timbers to build ten thousand more. ~Muriel Strode

[JohnT]

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future."

[Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt, June 26 1963]

― John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States.
Kennedy represented Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate prior to becoming president. Born 1917, Assassinated 1963.

[johntheott]

"Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to Hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip."


Winston Churchill

[Teri]

Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once. ~Robert Brault

[Teri]

If we neglect the body the body will have its revenge. ~Anonymous, 1858

[JohnT]

I once heard a story about a man who uses a wheelchair. When asked if it was difficult being confined, he responded, “I’m not confined to my wheelchair—I am liberated by it. If it wasn’t for my wheelchair, I would be bed-bound and never able to leave my house.” This shift in perspective completely transformed how he lived each day.

-- found in some commentary about "Atomic Habits", a book by James Clear

[Teri]

We might call it fall fever, but we don't, perhaps because it is restlessness rather than lassitude. It is more like wanderlust, though the wanderer merely wants to go, to see new places, and the urgency now is to see old, familiar places again. Autumn burnishes the memories as well as the hills. ~Hal Borland

[Teri]

An angel's wing beats at every window, but only the listening hear and rise. ~Muriel Strode

[JohnT]

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

-- Isadora Duncan
Angela Isadora Duncan was an American and French dancer who performed to acclaim throughout Europe, born 1877, died 1927.

[Teri]

The sun declined, and we both fell into twilight silence. Night, which in autumn seems to fall from the sky at once, it comes so quickly, chilled us, and we rolled ourselves in our cloaks. ~Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

[Teri]

A house is not a home without animals. ~Abby Geni

[Teri]

You don't need to know the whole alphabet of Safety. The a, b, c of it will save you if you follow it: Always Be Careful. ~Colorado School of Mines Magazine, 1918