Fortune favors the Bold           ~ ancient Latin proverb ~

Whatever's good for your soul, Do That.     ~ Lisa Bauman ~

Turn 'I would if I could' into 'I can and I am!'

Walk with the wind, brothers and sisters, and let the spirit of peace and the everlasting power of love be your guide.          ~ John Lewis ~                                  

Getting by is enough right now.

The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears.            ~ Arabian Proverb ~ 

You don't regret the things you do, you regret the things you don't do.    ~ Unknown Author ~ 

To ride a horse is to ride the sky.             ~ Unknown Author ~ 

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and 
sweat and blood, who strives valiantly - who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, 
who spends himself in a worthy cause,  who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high 
achievement and who at the worst,  if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly,  so that 
his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
                             ~ Theodore Roosevelt ~ 

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
                                                                                ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; 
the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.
                                                       ~ William Shakespeare, Henry  V ~

Why stroll through life when you can gallop!

Every journey has a secret destination of which the traveler is unaware.

All being finished means is that you haven't started yet.     ~ Aaron Sorkin ~   

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall.
                            ~ Nelson Mandela ~          

Invest in the Journey!

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
                       ~ Thomas Edison ~
               
If you never chase your dreams, you will never catch them. 

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.    
                      ~ Will Rogers ~

Today is full of possibilities. Who cares if others don't see them? Spread your wings!
                         ~ Dewitt Jones ~

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose. 
You're on your own. And you know what you know.
And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.... 
                            ~ Dr. Seuss ~

For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green.                  ~ J.R.R. Tolkien ~

We are face to face with our destiny, and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage.  For ours is the life of action, of vigorous performance of duty. We must live in the harness, striving mightily. We must run the risk of wearing out, rather than rusting out.            ~ Theodore Roosevelt ~

It always seems impossible until its done.            ~ Nelson Mandela ~
                                             
You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think      ~ A.A.Milne ~

One day at a time - this is enough.  Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone, and do not be troubled about the future, for it is yet to come.  Live in the present, tomorrow is never promised.  Happiness is a journey, just as life is.  Enjoy the ride.                           ~ Anonymous ~
                                              
There's no such word as can't.          ~ Grace Dawson ~

A man that don’t love a horse, there is just something the matter with him.       ~ Will Rogers ~

Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground.  Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it.               ~ Wilferd Peterson ~

Success doesn't count unless you earned it.              ~ Michelle Obama ~

You have to dream big, wish hard, and chase after your goals, because no one is going to do it for you.
                ~ Ce Lo Green ~

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery, today is a gift.           ~ Dewitt Jones ~

How long the road is. But, for all the time the journey has taken, how I have needed every second of it in order to learn what the road passes by.          ~ Dag Hannarskjold ~

You can't put a limit on anything.  The more you dream, the farther you get.     ~ Michael Phelps ~

I must always remember to make time for quiet, for stillness.
For, so often, it is there that everything comes into focus.
                 ~ Dewitt Jones ~

Life is a Journey. Enjoy the Ride. 

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.       ~ Carl Sagan ~

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder. 
             ~ Ansel Adams ~

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body; but rather a skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming, "Wow, what a ride!"

Some horses come into our lives and quickly go.  Others stay awhile, make hoofprints on our heart, and we are never, never the same.  

Success doesn't just happen. You have to practice success.      ~ Michelle Obama ~  
                                                                                 
There is nothing better in this life than riding good horses.
                                                 
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.          ~ Will Rogers ~

We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds. 
Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath.

Celebrate what's right with the world!           ~ Dewitt Jones ~

Ride a wild horse
against the sky
hold tight to his wings
before you die
whatever else you leave undone —
once ride a wild horse
into the sun.
                             ~ Hannah Kahn ~

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.     ~ Albert Einstein ~

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.         ~ Charles Dickens ~

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.                    ~ Albert Einstein ~

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.           ~ Theodore Roosevelt ~

In riding a horse we borrow freedom.                      ~ Helen Thomson ~

The world is not to be passed through, but savored.             ~ Brian Jay Corrigan ~

The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.                   ~ Gene Roddenbury ~

At its finest, rider and horse are joined not by tack, but by trust. Each is totally reliant upon the other. Each is the selfless guardian of the other’s very well being.                       ~ Michael Plumb ~

Find something you like doing, then spend our life doing it.        ~ Dick Francis ~

In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.     ~ Albert Camus ~

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.    ~ Carl Reiner ~

Each day is a gift.

Starry nights quiet the soul.

They have a joyful life, who live their dreams.     ~ Unknown ~

Keep your eyes way out into the future, and you will get there.     ~ Jack Le Goff

It is not our abilities that show what we truly are - it is our choices.    ~ Albus Dumbledore ~

The horse, through all its trials, has preserved the sweetness of paradise in its blood.
      ~ Johannes Jensen ~

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. 

My treasures do not clink together or glitter.  They gleam in the sun and neigh in the night. 
      ~ Old Horseman's Proverb ~

Do or do not, there is no try.       ~ Yoda ~
                                                 
If we let it, imagination can unite the world.     ~ Steven Spielberg ~
                                                 
Don't squander time, that is the stuff that life is made of.

Half the failures in life arise from pulling on one's horse as it is leaping.  
      ~ Julius Hare, 1795-1855 ~

We didn't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we are borrowing it from our children.
      ~ an Native American saying ~

Don't just believe in Miracles, rely on them.

Time spent with a horse is never wasted.    ~ Winston Churchill

Yes we can.    ~ Barack Obama

I have learned that courage is not the absence of fear but the triumph over it.
      ~ Nelson Mandela

You don't travel because you know what is going to happen; you travel to see what happens next.
      ~ Jimmy Wofford

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.          
      ~ George Carlin

The good life is a process, not a state of being.  It is a direction not a destination. 

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.     ~ Ben Williams 

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

Friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly. 
                                              
Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have the faith to see it.     ~ Dean Koontz

I found the bond between horse and rider exhilarating, especially when I realized I could read their minds.  When I discovered that they could also read mine, I knew I was part of a winning combination.      ~ Dick Francis     

You can still smell the roses when you are running and they are in your hand.

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.      ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Everybody should be a dreamer.  You've got to reach for the stars, not for the ceiling. 
     ~ Sam Beckett

Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion.  It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.
     ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."    ~ Oscar Wilde

No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.      ~ Winston Churchill ~

Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, and thinking what no one else has thought. 
     ~ Albert Einstein ~

After all is said and done, usually more is said than done.      ~ Unknown ~

Some horses come into our lives and quickly go. 
Others stay awhile, make hoofprints on our heart, 
and we are never, never the same. 
     ~ Unknown ~

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.   ~ Henry David Thoreau ~

Everything you can imagine is real.       ~ Picasso ~

Peace on Earth - and in Space

Expect magic to happen, and it will.

Life is short.  Ride hard.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.       ~ Albert Einstein ~

Invest in the Journey, not the Destination.         ~ George Dawson ~