For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

It boggles my mind that someone can see life breathed into a baby, watch the grass die and then come to life again, see leaves fall and watch the rebirth of a tree, or gaze on any of the majestic splendor that is this earth and not be overpowered by the presence of an Almighty God!

~Bill McCartney

Haleakala Crater

Maui

The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.

~Robert Leighton

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

~Richard Bach

Laughing Kookaburra

Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.

~Epicurus

Brown House

Fort Christmas, Florida

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

~William Butler Yeats

Hyacinth macaw

Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean.  But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

~Mother Teresa

Maui

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.  So practice happy thinking every day.  Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

~Norman Vincent Peale

Broom making demonstration

Fort Christmas

Christmas, Florida

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

~Edgar Allen Poe

Fort Christmas

Christmas, Florida