A Stroll in the Garden

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit. -Frank Borman

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Life is about growth and exploration, not achieving a fixed state of balance. You have a very limited time on earth to experience all that you can. Figuring out how to squeeze the most out of your family, work, and spirituality is your life’s purpose. Go do it. -Mel Robbins

Everything about your life, about your body, grows! Your cells regenerate; your hair, your nails, everything grows for your entire life. And your soul needs exploration and growth. And the only way you’ll get it is by forcing yourself to be uncomfortable. Forcing yourself to get outside, out of your head. -Mel Robbins

And as I reinvent myself and I’m constantly curious about everything, I can’t wait to see what’s around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration. -Pam Grier

The excitement lies in the exploration of the world around us. -Jim Peebles

My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing and understanding the world, and relating to it. My father approached things through scientific inquiry and exploration, while my mother experienced things through her emotions and senses. -Jon Kabat-Zinn

I’m not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It’s all about exploration: just tune the guitar any way you want and start playing. -Alex Lifeson

I’m a storyteller; that’s what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven’t been and returning to tell a story they haven’t heard before. -James Cameron

I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it’s about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that’s frightening because I haven’t been there before. -P. J. Harvey

Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That’s a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don’t know what you’re doing. -Neil deGrasse Tyson

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A Stroll in the Garden

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” ― William James

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“Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.”
― Gandhi

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.” ― John Locke

“We can’t sufficiently define love with our words. Therefore, the only option that we’re left with is to show it in our actions. And if our actions don’t show it, the words don’t matter. Neither does anything else.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Do actions agree with words? There’s your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“You can’t make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence.”
― Julien Smith, The Flinch

“At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.”
― Thomas A Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

“If your actions don’t live up to your words, you have nothing to say.” ― DaShanne Stokes

“If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.” ― Anita Roddick

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A Stroll in the Garden

Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered… the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith… All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown. -Thomas Becket

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. -William Shakespeare

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A lot of people want the crown, but they’re not willing to bleed for it. -Scott Haze

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. -Frederick the Great

Being champion is all well and good, but you can’t eat a crown. -Althea Gibson

He that hath no cross deserves no crown. -Francis Quarles

A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. -Pearl Bailey

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. -George Bancroft

Behaving like a princess is work. It’s not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It’s more about how you are inside. -Julie Andrews

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A Stroll in the Garden

 

Ordinary people who faithfully, diligently, and consistently do simple things that are right before God will bring forth extraordinary results. -David A. Bednar

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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. -Samuel Johnson

For dreams to come true, it requires diligence. Believing is the most important thing! -Yunho

“The natural consequence of diligence and persistence is competence and success.” ― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty ‘n’ Worthy African Proverbs – Volume 1

Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them. -Benjamin Franklin

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you. -Arnold Palmer

Diligence is not easy, but we can’t reach our goals without it. -Henry Cloud

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. -Abigail Adams

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. -Confucius

Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren’t sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better. -John Carmack

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A Stroll in the Garden

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.” —John Lubbock

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“Cause a little bit of summer is what the whole year is about.” —John Mayer

“Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.” —Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

“In summer, the song sings itself.” – William Carlos Williams

“There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.” – Celia Thaxter

“In the summertime, when the weather is hot, you can reach right up and touch the sky.” – Mungo Jerry

 “I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.” —Kellie Elmore

“A life without love is like a year without summer.” —Swedish Proverb

“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.” —Henry David Thoreau

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