Be Yourself

Like the sky opens after a rainy day we must open to ourselves.... Learn to love yourself for who you are and open so the world can see you shine.
--James Poland

Skiing

"Powder snow skiing is not fun. It's life, fully lived, life lived in a blaze of reality." - Dolores LaChapelle

SLOW DANCE

This post is not a quote, it is a poem written by a teenage girl with terminal cancer. Her wish is for as many possible to read this and to tell people to live life to the fullest and enjoy the things she will never get to do.

SLOW DANCE

Have you ever
Watched
kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to
the
rain
Slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a
butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the
fading
night?

You'd better slow down.
Don't
dance so
fast.
Time is short.
The music
won't last.

Do you run through each day
on
the
fly?
When you ask How are you?
Do you hear
the
reply?

When the day is done
Do you lie
in your
bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through
your head?

You'd better
slow down.
Don't dance so
fast.
Time is
short.
The music won't
last.

Ever told your
child,
We'll do it
tomorow?
And in you
haste,
not see
his
sorrow?

Ever lost
touch,
Let a good
friendship die
Cause you
never had time
To call
and say, 'Hi'

You'd
better slow down.
Don't dance
so fast.
Time
is short.
The music won't
last.

When you run
so fast to get somewhere
You
miss half the fun of getting
there.

When you worry and hurry
through your
day,
It is like an unopened
gift....
Thrown
away.

Life is not a
race.
Do take it
slower
Hear the
music
Before the song is
over.

Time

"Lost time is never found." - Benjamin Franklin

Possibility

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan

Expectations

"One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low." - Thomas Fuller

Strength

"What does not kill me makes me stronger" - Friedrich Nietzsc

Music

"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence." - Leopold Stokowski

Success

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

Winter

"The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination." - Terri Guillemets