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

LIVING

"To know 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 hearts content."

                                                                                                             -- Amanda Bradley

Batanes, Philippines

MEDITATION

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

Palawan, Philippines

HEAVEN

Heaven's delights will far outweigh earth's difficulties

 Think of a land of no sorrow
Think of a land of no fears
Think of no death and no sickness
Think of a land of no tears.

Banaue Rice Terraces, Philippines

KEEP MOVING

Mayon volcano, Philippines

 "If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl. By all means, keep moving."

                                                   - Martin Luther King

Mayon volcano, Philippines

CHILD

Batanes, Philippines

  "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when 

he is old he will not depart from it."

                                                                                                                    - Proverbs

Batanes, Philippines

Challenges

Manila, Philippines

"If we could see into each other's hearts and understand the unique challenges of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more 

love, patience, tolerance and care."

Batanes, Philippines

What Matters

 "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

                                                                     -Henry David Thoreau

Bicol, Philippines

BEAUTY

 Batanes, Philippines' Oldest Woman

"Beauty is not about a pretty face. It is having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and most importantly a beautiful soul."

Batanes, Philippines

SMILE

 Don't give up on things that make you smile.

WINGS

 Korea

"I will spread my wings and I will learn how to fly. 

I will do what it takes until I reach the sky."

Korean skyline

Journey

 "I may not be there yet, but I will get there.  No matter what it takes, I'll get there.  
I refuse to let the trivial things of today weigh down my tomorrow."

Mt. Pinatubo Crater, Philippines

Extra Mile

 "The Extra Mile is a vast, unpopulated wasteland."

Banaue, Rice Terraces, Philippines

Thoughts of Life

Look back and get experience

Look forward and see hope

Look around and find reality

Look within and find yourself.