“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
""Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.""
- John Burroughs
Motivation
"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service."
- John Burroughs
Hard Work
"I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey"
- John Burroughs
Creativity
"It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it."
- John Burroughs
Creativity
"You must have the bird in your heart before you can find it in the bush."
- John Burroughs
Belief in Self
"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."
- Will Rogers
Reflection
"Life is like a sewer … what you get out of it depends on what you put into it."
- Tom Lehrer
Reflection
"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done."
- Lucille Ball
Reflection
"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know."
- Pema Chodron
Reflection
"Happy Tuesday! It is a good day to reflect on the week so far and spread happiness."
Reflection