“I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.” – Jeffrey McDaniel

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Listen to the silence, it speaks. Listen to your heart, it knows.” – Native American Proverb

“Silence is a source of Great Strength.” – Lao Tzu

If you listen carefully, the silence is beautiful…

“A flower does not think about competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.” – Zen Shin

“If one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, than one is too few.” – William Wordsworth

“I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord”. – Psalm 122

“Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, as without light, nothing flowers”. – May Sarton

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the…

“Let us go in, the fog is rising”. – Emily Dickinson

“When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall…

“Of winter’s lifeless world each tree Now seems a perfect part; Yet each one holds summer’s secret Deep down within its heart.” – Charles G. Stater

“Plan for the future because that’s where you are going to spend the rest of your life.” – Mark Twain

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” ― John Steinbeck

“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”…

“Kindness is like snow, it beautifies everything it covers.” – Kahlil Gibran

“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face”. – Victor Hugo

Trees By Joyce Kilmer I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth’s sweet…

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping…

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. – John 1:5

“Rest and be thankful.” ― William Wordsworth

“We have so much time and so little to do! Strike that. Reverse it.” – Willy Wonka

“I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth.” – Isaiah 42:16 In memory of James E. Winner Jr. (7/12/1929 – 9/14/2010)

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar”. – Helen Keller

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never…

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all. – Emily Dickinson

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead”. – Oscar Wilde

“If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter…