Incredible Inspiration

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are.

Robert Collier
American Author

Incredible Inspiration

I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
American Poet and
Pulitzer Prize Winner

Incredible Inspiration

Often my creative life has seemed like a long tunnel, dark and damp. And sometimes I wondered whether I could live through it. But I did!

Ai Qing
Chinese Poet and Political Activist

Incredible Inspiration

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.

Ivan Panin
Russian-American;
Lecturer on Russian literature.

Incredible Inspiration

The trees are God's great alphabet:

With them He writes in shining green

Across the world His thoughts serene.

Leonora Speyer
American Poet and Violinist

Incredible Inspiration

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

Incredible Inspiration

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Rabindranath Tagore
Nobel Prize Winner
in Literature

Incredible Inspiration

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Dame Edith Wharton
American Novelist and
Pulitzer Prize Winner

Incredible Inspiration

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Edward Gibbon
English historian and
Member of Parliament

Incredible Inspiration

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave.

Mark Twain

Incredible Inspiration

Fort Vancouver Historical Site

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Greek proverb

Incredible Inspiration

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.


John Ruskin


English artist, writer, and philanthropist.

Incredible Inspiration

To her the name of father was another name for love.

Fanny Fern
American newspaper columnist and author.


Happy Father's Day!

Incredible Inspiration

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

John Burroughs
American naturalist and essayist

Incredible Inspiration

Lake Quinault - Washington State

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Wallace Stevens

American Poet and Pulitzer Prize winner -1955

Incredible Inspiration

Man is a stream whose source is hidden.



Ralph Waldo Emerson

Incredible Inspiration

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.



Anatole France
(Nobel Prize winner for Literature in 1921.)

Incredible Inspiration

Mothers are simply angels without their wings.


Unknown



Happy Mother's Day!

Incredible Inspiration

All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace arise from beyond the mind.


Eckhart Tolle

Incredible Inspiration

Interstate Bridge over the Columbia River

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.


Earl Nightingale