:: Barb’s Photo Blog ::

 

“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others, at whatever cost.”
~Arthur Ashe

My son wants to go into the mission field. He has undramatically, but quietly, soberly, and sometimes very slowly, worked his way to his goals and dreams, with huge obstacles that would have swayed the ordinary.Enric, you’re one amazing young man.
   

 

“Meat makes, and clothes shapes, but manners makes a man.”
-Scottish Proverb

“All that spirits desire, spirits attain.”
Kahlil Gibran, “The Poet of Baalbek”

“The last of the human freedoms is to choose one’s attitudes.”
-Victor Frankl

 Winner at Inspiration Photo Challenge

“I hope and hoping feeds my pain
I weep and weeping feeds my failing heart
I laugh but the laughter does not pass within
I burn but the burning makes no mark outside”
 -Niccolo Machiavelli

“The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.”
~Henry Van Dyke

Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.
(Vietnamese Proverb)

She thought about it for a while and then finally went for it…jumped in from atop a high rock into the waterfall and the waters below.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
~Helen Keller

“Living without faith is like driving in a fog.”

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
-Carl Sandburg