Strength

Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character.

~~ Chinese Proverbs

Fools

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

~~ Dale Carnegie

Big Cypress 07

Concerns

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

~~ John Wooden

Wishing

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.

~~ Sven Goran Eriksson

Arches

Arches by Jarime Baethge
Arches, a photo by Jarime Baethge on Flickr.

Arches National Park in Utah

Wildlife

Death Valley

Death Valley by Jarime Baethge
Death Valley, a photo by Jarime Baethge on Flickr.

Sunrise!!

Smelling

You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.

~~ Hank Williams

Years

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

~~ Abraham Lincoln

Luck

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

~ Thomas Jefferson