Inspirational Quotes and Images

Several years ago, when Oprah first aired her TV special about her School in Africa, I was so inspired for these young girls, they had been given such a wonderful opportunity.

My feelings about it were so strong, I felt I needed to find a way to express them. So I sat down and created a book with a few of my photos, along with some of my favorite inspirational quotes.

I had the book printed, and sent to Oprah’s studio in Chicago, asking them to please forward it to the girls at her school. It was a small token of acknowledgment and encouragement for the journey they were taking.

I share with you here the images and some of my favorite quotes from my book.

lighthouse

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

~ Henry David Thoreau

grizzlies

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.

~ Rusty Berkus

waters

We cannot discover new oceans until we have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

~ Muriel Chen

red-flowers

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

~ Warren G. Bennis

flower image 18

The future depends on what we do in the present.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

yellowstone_waterfall

Nature does nothing in vain.

~ Aristotle

duck

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

~e.e. cummings

grand-tetons

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

flower image 10

What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.

~ Alexandra Stoddard

ocean

Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

path

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

mountains

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

~ Robert Schuller

glacier

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new horizons, but in seeing with new eyes.

~ Marcel Proust

fall

Nature and Wisdom never are at strife.

~ Plutarch

ocean photo 4

They can because they think they can.

~ Virgil

yosemite

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Setting Sun La Conner, WA

Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

~ Leo Buscaglia

flower image 17

Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.

~ Phillips Brooks

red-sunset

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

~ Anne Herbert

ocean photo 13

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

~ Epictetus

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