Kathy

“A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained.”
― Ruth K. Westheimer

“It is easy to overlook this thought that life just is. As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and desires. We want to take constant advantage of all the intoxicating existence we've been endowed with. But what's life to a lichen? Yet its impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours—arguably even stronger. If I were told that I had to spend decades being a furry growth on a rock in the woods, I believe I would lose the will to go on. Lichens don't. Like virtually all living things, they will suffer any hardship, endure any insult, for a moment's additional existence. Life, in short, just wants to be.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
― John Muir

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.”
― Leo Buscaglia