Strength from challenge ... Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Should you shield
 the canyons from 
the windstorms, 
you would never 
see the beauty 
of their carvings. 
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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Location: Mount Lemon
outside Tucson, Arizona

the purpose of friends...Pope Benedict XVI

True friends challenge

us and help us 

to be faithful 

on our journey.

~Pope Benedict XVI

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you choose the challenge

If you want to run, 

run a mile. 

If you want to 

experience a 

different life, 

run a marathon. 

~Emil Zatopek

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Location: Great Wall of China, 1970s

good, better, best ... St. Jerome

Good, better, best. 

Never let it rest. 

'Til your good is better 

and your better is best. 

~St. Jerome

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Location: Papago Museum, Scottsdale, Arizona

doing things with Theodore Roosevelt

Do what you can,

with what you have,

where you are.

~Theodore Roosevelt

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Location: Cancer Park, central Phoenix, Arizona

Corn on the Cob Day ... reflections of Dwight Eisenhower

Farming looks mighty easy

 when your plow is a pencil 

and you're 

a thousand miles 

from the corn field.

~Dwight  D. Eisenhower

Courtesy of Library of Congress
Celery Fields (both images)

Donald Duck Day ... sort of ... with Walt Disney

It's kind of fun 

to do the impossible.

~Walt Disney

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OK, so I took liberties with Donald Duck Day

(4/22) National Jelly Bean Day ... women and food ... Orson Welles

If there hadn't been women,

 we'd still be squatting

 in a cave eating raw meat,

 because 

we made civilization 

in order to impress 

our girlfriends.

~Orson Welles

In the above image, 

she is putting up jelly.

In the below image, 

he is moving beans.

Technically, this is 

Jelly Bean Day!

Images both courtesy of Library of Congress

(3/7) Alexander Graham Bell Day ... Hello?

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Location: London Bridge, Lake Havasu City, Arizona

All glory 

comes from

 daring to begin.

~Eugene F. Ware

(1/30) Constantly strive ... Pat Riley

If you have 

a positive attitude

 and constantly strive 

to give your best effort,

eventually

 you will overcome

 your immediate problems

 and 

find you are ready 

for greater challenges.

~ Pat Riley

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Those who don't jump will never fly.

~ Leena Ahmad Almshat

(Harmony Letters)

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

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