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

Butterflies

"Butterflies are self propelled flowers." - R.H. Heinlein

Opportunity

"You see things; and you say: "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say: "Why not?" - George Bernard Shaw

Heartache

"Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated." - Lamartine

Mistakes

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein

Math

"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas." - Albert Einstein

Happiness

"Contentment is the only real wealth" - Alfred Nobel

Children

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. - Stacia Tauscher

Motivation

"A creative man is motivated by the desire to acheive, not the desire to beat others." - Ayn Rand

Education

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." - Malcolm S. Forbes

Education

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." - Aristotle

Learning

"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder." - Ralph W. Sockman

Summer

"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability." -Sam Keen

Summer

"Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language." -Henry James

Summer

"Then followed that beautiful season... Summer....

Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love

"You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." -Dr. Seuss

Friendship

"A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails." - Donna Roberts

Success

"In order to succeed, your desire for sucess should be greater than your fear of failure." - Bill Cosby

Happiness

"Pure and simple, any person who is enjoying life is a success." - William Feather

Opportunity

"When one door closes another door opens; but so often we look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door the we do not see the ones which open for us." - Alexander Graham Bell

Inspire

"No matter where you find yourself, you've got to seize the day and make something out of it." - Joan Weir

Growth

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow." - C. R. Lawton

Effort

"No matter what anyone else says, always stay true to yourself and dedicated to your passion." - Yi-Jia Susanne Hou

Learn

"Learning starts with curiosity; teachers are wherever you look for them." - Daniel Lanois, a Canadian musician

Live

"It's never too late to paint outside the lines." - Mickie Acierno, a Canadian artist

Life

"Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go. Only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be." - Karen Ravn, an author

Happiness

"Pure and simple, any person enjoying life is a success." - William Feather, an American publisher and author

Possibility

"When you chase your dreams, you'll never regret where it takes you." - Sigmund Brouwer, an author

Success

"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable." - Coach John Wooden

Competetive Greatness

"Perform at your best when your best is required. Your best is required every day." - Coach John Wooden

Confidence

"The strongest steel is well-founded self-belief. It is earned, not given." - Coach John Wooden

Team Spirit

" The star of the team is the team. 'We' supercedes 'me'." - Coach John Wooden

Intentness

"Stay the course. When thwarted try again; harder; smarter. Persevere relentlessly." - Coach John Wooden.

Self - Control

"Control of your organization begins with control of yourself. Be disciplined." - Coach John Wooden

Initiative

" Make a decision! Failure to act is often the biggest failure of all." - Coach John Wooden

Cooperation

"Have utmost concern for what's right rather than who's right." - Coach John Wooden

Loyalty

"Be true to yourself. Be true to those you lead." - Coach John Wooden.

Coach John Wooden

Today I will be honoring the recent death of basketball coach John Wooden by using his quotes. I will do more than one. Most will be from the Pyramid of Succes.

Control

"Belive in yourself-in the power you have to control you life, day by day." - Donovan Bailey, a Canadian sprinter