GRATITUDE

To whom do you owe gratitude? parents, teachers, mentors, friends, relatives, colleagues?

No one is self-made. You are where you are now because someone, somewhere, 
helped you along the way.

BEAUTIFUL

Niagara Falls, Canada


"To a beautiful heart, everything appears beautiful."

Niagara Falls, Canada

Everything

Tybee Island, Savannah, Georgia

 "In everything,  give thanks."

"It is attitude that makes the difference. It is acknowledging that no matter how dark the clouds, there is a silver lining; that every dark valley has a way out; that every night is followed by a dawn; and that everything, except eternity, will eventually be over."

Tybee Island, Savannah, Georgia

Adventure

Hawaii

 "The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams."

                                                                                                                             -- Oprah

The Bahamas

SOUL

Liverpool, New York

"Your wise soul knows that the purpose of life is for your human self to create the most 
love, gratitude and joy that you can."

Bahamas

Reward

Honolulu, Hawaii

 "The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more."

Honolulu, Hawaii

Best Day

The Bahamas

"You have to fight through some hard days to 

earn the best day of your life."

Miami, Florida

CELEBRATE

Albuquerque, New Mexico

 "The more you praise and celebrate your life, 

the more there is in life to celebrate."

                                                      -- Oprah

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Change

Summer, Central Park

Seasons change. Things change. Circumstances change. 

                                                                                       -- Lia

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."

                                                                                                                   -- Lao Tzu

Autumn, Central Park

Abundance

Syracuse, NY

 Live a Life of Abundance

                            

With gratitude and joy, I welcome abundance of positive people and events into 
my life . . . . now and always.

Honolulu, Hawaii

Silence

Stella Maris Retreat House, Skaneateles, New York

 "Let your speech be better than silence; otherwise be silent."

Thayer Park, Skaneateles, New York

Best Life

Portland, Maine

 To live your best life is to live it with grace, with gratitude, 

with happiness and with strength.

                                                                                                                           --- Lia

Syracuse, New York

Living

Syracuse, NY

"The joy of living is to count up a lifetime, not by the years we've spent, 

but by the stores of memories and by our heart's content." 

                                               -- Amanda Bradley

Syracuse, NY

Virtues

Seneca Lake, Wine Trail, NY

  

"New mercies in the morning

Grace for every day

New hope for every trial

And courage all the way."

 

Seneca Lake, Wine Trail,  NY

Grounded

Stay humble, stay grounded. Remember what you got to that level - and that's hard work.

                                                                                -- Tim Howard

Learning from the Past

Syracuse, New York

 "Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope."

                                                                           -- Romans 5:3-4

Goodyear, Arizona

Desire of the Heart

 Syracuse, NY

 Open your Heart.
 Follow your Dream.

Syracuse, NY

When the sun is down

"Don't cry when the sun is down, because the tears 

won't let you see the stars"

NOW

Syracuse


"Be present in all things and thankful for all things."
                                                                               -- Maya Angelou

            Enjoy the Now.            

                   - - Lia 

Syracuse

FORWARD

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

DESIRE and PATH

Bahamas Sunset

"When a deep desire lives in  your heart, a dream that is
 part of your soul's fiber, a path exists to bring it to life."

                                                                                            -- Deepak Chopra

Bahamas Sunset

BELIEVERS

 Believe that Prayer works through Faith and Action.

Great Day

Sagada, Philippines

To have a great day is to be someone else's sunshine, or be the reason someone smiles today.

Sagada, Philippines

LOVE YOURSELF

Batanes, Philippines

Love yourself

Respect yourself

Never sell yourself short

Believe in yourself regardless of what people think

You can accomplish anything

Absolutely anything if you set your mind to it.

Batanes, Philippines

BLESSINGS

Shennandoah Valley, Virginia

 Look around you, everything you have is a blessing.

Chicago, Illinois

LOVE

 "Love is not what you say. Love is what you do."

Central Park, New York