Happy New Year ... Claude T. Bissell

Risk more than others think is safe.

Care more than others think is wise.

Dream more than others think is practical

Expect more than others think is possible.

~ Claude T. Bissell

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Location: Nome Alaska

What or who can change the world? Robin Williams

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Location: Florence, Arizona

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
~ Robin Williams

Planning ... Warren Buffett

Someone today is sitting 

in shade 

because someone planted a tree long ago.

~ Warren Buffett

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When you think things are impossible ... Audrey Hepburn

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, "I'm possible." 

~ Audrey Hepburn

Uplifting ... Maya Angelou

Try to be the rainbow in someone's cloud.
~ Maya Angelou

Better tomorrows ... Tim Fargo

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Location: Alaska

Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.
~ Tim Fargo

Merry Christmas ... Calvin Coolidge

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

~ Calvin Coolidge

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Location: Mormon Temple, Mesa, Arizona

Merry Christmas Eve ... Calvin Coolidge

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

~ Calvin Coolidge

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Pre-Christmas ideals ... Dale Carnegie

We all have possibilities 

we don't know about.

We can do things 

we don't even dream we can do.

~ Dale Carnegie

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Location: Mormon Temple, Mesa, Arizona

Opportunities ... Napoleon Hill

Your big opportunity may be 

right where you are now.

~ Napoleon Hill

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Behold the Plot Bunny 

Those who don't jump will never fly.

~ Leena Ahmad Almshat

(Harmony Letters)

Chaos in action ... Will Rogers

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

~Will Rogers

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Location: Tempe, Arizona

The possible versus the impossible ... Pearl S. Buck

All things are possible 

until they are proven

 to be impossible.

~Pearl S. Buck

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Photos Courtesy of Library of Congress
Location: Egypt
Time Period 1860-1934

Challenges ... Eleanor Roosevelt

What one has to do
can usually be done.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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Location: Nome Alaska

Action ... Ernest Hemingway

Never mistake
motion
for
action.
~ Ernest Hemingway

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Location: Michigan

Work done well ... Benjamin Franklin

Well done is usually better

than well said.

~ Benjamin Franklin

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Belief ... Henry David Thoreau

Live your beliefs 

and 

you can turn 

the world around.

~ Henry David Thoreau

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Location: Mormon Temple, Mesa, Arizona

Life's Balancing Act ... Dr. Seuss

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(no teeter-totters were available
to photograph at this playground)

Step with care

and great tact, 

and remember that 

Life's a Great Balancing Act.

~ Dr. Seuss

Dreams ... Mike Morton

Dreams are what guide us,

art defines us, 

math is what makes it

 all possible, 

and love

is what lights our way.

~ Mike Morton

1939 Fayetteville, North Carolina
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the key to life ... Bette Davis

The key to life is
accepting challenges.
Once someone stops doing this,
he's dead.
~Bette Davis

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doing the impossible - Friar Tuck

London Bridge - Lake Havasu, Arizona
Moved from London brick by brick
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Do not think 

it is impossible 

because 

it has never happened.

~Friar Tuck

World Domination ... sort of ... Marilyn Monroe

 Give a girl the right shoes,

and she can conquer the world.

~ Marilyn Monroe

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Challenge .. Archimedes

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Give me a firm spot 

on which to stand,

and I shall move the earth.

~ Archimedes 

- The Works of Archimedes

Rules ... Katharine Hepburn

Courtesy of  Fisk Family Archives

If you obey all the rules, 

 you miss all the fun.

Katharine Hepburn

It's never too late to start again .. Chico Xavier

Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning ...

Anyone can start over and make a new ending.

~ Chico Xavier

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Validation ... Jasz Gill

Library of Congress - Trinity College 1952

Do not wait for someone

else to validate your

existence;

it is your own responsibility.

~ Jasz Gill

Winning Attitude ... Paul Bryant

Library of Congress - 1920s skating party

Show class,

have pride,

and

display character.

If you do,

winning takes care

of itself.

~Paul Bryant

love and pain ... CS Lewis

Library of Congress

If you love deeply, you're going to be hurt badly. 

But it's still worth it.

~ CS Lewis

Happiness vs. Problems ... Steve Maraboli

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.

~ Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Library of Congress

Rudyard Kipling - see the best

I always prefer to believe the best in everybody; it saves so much trouble.

~ Rudyard Kipling 

Raleigh North Carolina ... Library of Congress

the journey - Joss Whedon

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“You take people, 

you put them on a journey, 

you give them peril, 

you find out who they really are.”

~Joss Whedon 

Midweek miles ...

“There’s no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream.” --- Author Unknown

Happy Birthday, Grandy!!!!

You, yes, you ... we can see you!

Happy birthday!

With love, from all of us!

tea parties? Sir Arthur Pinero

Ronson House, Phoenix AZ

Where there's tea, there's hope.
~ Sir Arthur Pinero

Welcome to the dog days of summer ... Robert Falcon Smith

The dog lives for the day,

the hour, 

even the moment.

~Robert Falcon Smith

mistakes - Mel Brooks

Library of Congress

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
~ Mel Brooks

Bite off what you CAN chew! Carroll Bryant

Don't bite off more than you can chew because nobody looks good spitting it back out.

~ Carroll Bryant

Happy Summer Solstice ... Charles Bowden

"Summertime is always the best of what might be."

— Charles Bowden

Travel on Tuesdays ... Only in Japan

You take people, 

you put them on a journey, 

you give them peril, 

you find out who they really are.

~ Joss Whedon

We live in a culture of vast space .... so unlike Japan
Mystery Castle, Phoenix, AZ

See the best ... Rudyard Kipling

I always prefer to believe the best in everybody, it saves so much trouble.

~ Rudyard Kipling

Fearless Friday ... Cher

Until you are ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

~ Cher

Will Rogers ... common sense

Do the best you can and don't take yourself too serious.

~ Will Rogers