Thinking Outside the Box - Quote - Theodore Roosevelt - Comparison

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Quote: “Comparison is the thief of joy.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

SkyWatch Friday - Silos and Clouds - Quote - Apache Blessing

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Quote: Now you will feel no rain. For each of you will be shelter for the other. Now you will feel no cold. For each of you will be warmth for the other. Now there is no loneliness for you. Now there is no more loneliness. Now you are two persons, but there is one life before you. Go now to your dwelling place. To enter into the days of your togetherness. And may your days be good and long upon this earth. ~ Apache Blessing

Thinking Outside the Box - Magnolia Petal - Quote

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SkyWatch Friday - Sky - Quote - Anna White - Moments

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Quote: "Maybe it's not about having a beautiful day, but about finding beautiful moments. Maybe a whole day is just too much to ask. I could choose to believe that in every day, in all things, no matter how dark and ugly, there are shards of beauty if I look for them." ~ Anna White

Thinking Outside the Box - Leaf - Quote - Gilda Radner - Not Knowing

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Quote:Gilda Radner “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.” ~ Gilda Radner

SkyWatch Friday - Clouds 5302025B - Quote - Joseph Campbell - Joy

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Quote: "Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain." ~ Joseph Campbell

Thinking Outside the Box - Egg with Bits and Pieces, May 26, 2025 - Quote - Unknown - Memorial Day Thank you

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Quote: “Our flag does not fly because the wind moves it. It flies with the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it.” ~ Unknown

SkyWatch Friday - Sky May 23, 2025B - Quote - Amy Poehler - Always and Nevers

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Quote: "Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.'" ~ Amy Poehler

Thinking Outside the Box - Egg Contemporary May, 2025 - Quote - Fran Kafka - Meditation

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SkyWatch Friday - Clouds May, 2025 - Quote - Brené Brown - Joy

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Quote: "Joy is not a constant. It comes to us in moments - often ordinary moments. Sometimes we miss out on the bursts of joy because we're too busy chasing down the extraordinary moments. Other times we're so afraid of the dark we don't dare let ourselves enjoy the light. A joyful life is not a floodlight of joy. That would eventually become unbearable. I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude and inspiration." ~ Brené Brown

Thinking Outside the Box - Napkin with a Heart - Quote - Gertrude Stein - Communication

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Quote: "If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles." ~ Gertrude Stein

SkyWatch Friday - Forest Preserve, Oakton Community College - Quote - Leonardo da Vinci - Variety

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Quote: "To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

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Quote: “Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light reflects into the eye of man beholding his reality. All is part of totality, and in this totality man finds his hozro, his way of walking in harmony, with beauty all around him.” ~ Tony Hillerman, The Ghostway

SkyWatch Friday - Sky May 2, 2025, Illinois - Quote - Kevin L. Michel - Intentions

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Quote: “Our intentions act as the rudder of our ship, guiding us unerringly towards our chosen destination amidst the turbulent seas of life. Without intention, our actions are as aimless as the leaf adrift on the wind, susceptible to the faintest of gusts.” ~ Kevin L. Michel, The Power of the Present: A Stoic's Guide to Unyielding Focus

Thinking Outside the Box - One Pear - Quote - William Feather - Adventure

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Quote: "One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure." ~ William Feather

SkyWatch Friday - Spring in Newington, CT - Quote - Louise Penny - Choice

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Quote: "With patience comes choice, and with patience comes power." ~ Louise Penny, ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE

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SkyWatch Friday - Sunset - April, 2025 - Quote - Maya Angelou - Change

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Quote: “What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.” ~ Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Thinking Outside the Box - Egg Shell in an Antique Color - Quote - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray - "Remaking the World"

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Quote: “Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.” ~ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

SkyWatch Friday - Sun Rays and Clouds, March 2025 - Quote - Sandra Bullock - Choices

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Quote: "I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.' ~Sandra Bullock

Thinking Outside the Box - Egg with a Heart - Quote - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Moments

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Quote: "The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions-the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment." ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

SkyWatch Friday - Sunset, 2025 - Quote - Kristen Butler - Happenings

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Quote: "Sunsets are proof that no matter what happens, every day can end beautifully." ~ Kristen Butler.

SkyWatch Friday - Person Walking in the Rain

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Thinking Outside the Box - Egg in Corner - Quote - Yan Mei - Respond

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Quote: "As I lean and listen carefully, even the stones respond." ~ Yuan Mei (1716-1798)

SkyWatch Friday - Clouds, March 2025 - Quote - Stacy Martin - Photography

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Quote: "Photography can be a way into worlds and memories that words sometimes fail to convey." ~ Stacy Martin

Thinking Outside the Box - Egg Shell in a Circle - Quote - Plato - Beginning

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Quote: "The beginning is the most important part of the work." ~ Plato

SkyWatch Friday - Pink Reflections and Light Appearing Through Window - Quote - Ashley Smith - Moments

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Quote: “Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.” ~ Ashley Smith

Thinking Outside the Box - Leaf 24, 8751 Feb - Quote - Dodinsky - Gift

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Quote: “I hope I can be the autumn leaf, who looked at the sky and lived. And when it was time to leave, gracefully it knew life was a gift.” ~ Dodinsky

SkyWatch Friday - Six Trees at Sunset and Evanston Canal - Quote - Benjamin Franklin - Respect

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Quote: The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Thinking Outside the Box - Circles 17 - Quote - Mehmet Murat Ildan - Beginning

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Quote: "The best thing about existence is that any moment in time can be a point of beginning to anything!" ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Thinking Outside the Box - Moments in Time - Quote - Corinne Bailey Rae - Celebrating

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Quote: "I think that every day should be savored, and so a lot of 'Stop Where You Are' comes out of that idea that life is really precious, the people around us are precious, and every single moment is worth celebrating." ~ Corinne Bailey Rae

SkyWatch Friday - Clouds, Burlington, Wisconsin - Quote - Queen Elizabeth II - Change

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Quote: "It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change." ~ Queen Elizabeth II

Thinking Outside the Box - Egg Plus Conscience - Quote - Stephen Covey - Imagination

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Quote: Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change. ~ Stephen Covey

SkyWatch Friday - Bare Tree - Quote - Gustav Mahler - Create

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Quote: It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew. ~ Gustav Mahler

Thinking Outside the Box - Egg

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Quote: “We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.” ~ Joseph Campbell

SkyWatch Friday - Clouds C01 - Quote - Gilda Radner - Moments

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Quote: "Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next." ~ Gilda Radner

Thinking Outside the Box - Egg Cracked Open - Quote - Charles Dickens - I will

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Quote: "The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities." ~ Charles Dickens

Thinking Outside the Box - Peeling Blue Egg - Quote - Mary Shelley - Beginnings

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Quote: "The beginning is always today." ~ Mary Shelley

SkyWatch Friday - Sunset, Painted Desert, Farming - Quote - Robin Wall - Wonder and Joy

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Quote: "Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift." ~ Robin Wall