how optimistic are you ... Sylvester Stalone

I believe any success

in life is made

by going into an area

with a blind, 

furious optimism.

~Sylvester Stalone

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Location: Arizona Science Museum

Pomepi Exhibit

making destiny ... Jonathan Winters

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. Jonathan Winters

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just imagine ... Gloria Steinem

Without leaps of imagination

or dreaming,

we lose the excitement

of possibilities.

Dreaming, after all,

is a form of planning.

~ Gloria Steinem

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Location: Paradise Valley Mall, Phoenix, Arizona

creating the universe ... Muriel Rukeyser

The universe is made

of stories,

not of atoms.

~ Muriel Rukeyser

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Location: Lowell Observatory

(and yes, I know it's not a microscope)

a little rain may fall ... Gilbert K. Chesterton

And when it rains 

on your parade, 

look up rather than down. 

Without the rain, 

there would be no rainbow.

~Gilbert K. Chesterton

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striking out with John D. Rockefeller

If you want to succeed 

you should strike out 

on new paths, 

rather than travel 

the worn paths of 

accepted success. 

~John D. Rockefeller

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finding the humor ... Sam Walton

Celebrate your successes.

Find some humor 

in your failures.

~Sam Walton

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(4/9) Palm Sunday ... life lessons ... Lucille Ball

One of the things

 I learned the hard way

 was that it doesn't 

pay to get discouraged. 

Keeping busy 

and making optimism 

a way of life 

can restore 

your faith in yourself.

~Lucille Ball

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