Brantford Parks and Friday's Inspiration

"If you would be hit by the mark,

you must aim a little above it."

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Brantford Parks and Thursday's Inspiration

"The personal life deeply lived always

expands into truths beyond itself."

-Anais Nin

Brantford Parks and Wednesday's Inspiration

"Dreams come true; without the possibility,

nature would not incite us to have them."

-John Updike

Brantford Parks and Tuesday's Inspiration

"Let us be grateful to people who

make us happy, they are the charming

gardeners who make our souls bloom."

-Marcel Proust

Brantford Parks and Monday's Inspiration

"Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must

be kept alive. One must never,for

whatever reason, turn his back on life."

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Brantford Parks and the Weekend's Inspiration

"No act of kindness, no matter

how small, is ever wasted."

-Aesop

Brantford Parks and Friday's Inspiration

"When it is obvious that the goals

cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals,

adjust the action steps."

-Confucius

Brantford Parks and Thursday's Inspiration

"If you have good thoughts they will

shine out of your face like sunbeams

and you will always look lovely."

-Roald Dahl

Brantford Parks and Wednesday's Inspiration

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself,

instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

-Judy Garland

Brantford Parks and Tuesday's Inspiration

"A stumble may prevent a fall."

-Thomas Fuller

Brantford Parks and Monday's Inspiration

"I like my money right where I can see it-

hanging in my closet."

-Sarah Jessica Parker

Brantford Parks and the Weekend's Inspiration

"Never dull your shine for somebody else."

-Tyra Banks

Brantford Parks and Friday's Inspiration

"A well-spent day brings happy sleep."

-Leonardo Da Vinci

Brantford Parks and Thursday's Inspiration

"Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly."

-Henry J. Kaiser

Brantford Parks and Wednesday's Inspiration

"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight."

-Anonymous

Brantford Parks and Tuesday's Inspiration

"The good life is inspired by love

and guided by knowledge."

-Bertrand Russell

Brantford Parks and Monday's Inspiration

"Start by doing what is necessary,

then what is possible, and suddenly you

are doing the impossible."

-St. Francis of Assisi

Brantford Parks and the Weekend's Inspiration

"Far away there in the sunshine are my

highest aspirations. I may not reach them,

but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them,

and try to follow them where they lead."

-Louisa May Alcott

Brantford Parks and Friday's Inspiration

"The art of being wise is

knowing what to overlook."

-William James

Brantford Parks and Thursday's Inspiration

"The only real mistake is the one

from which we learn nothing."

-John Powell

Brantford Parks and Wednesday's Inspiration

"One does not get to know that one exists

until one rediscovers oneself in others."

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Brantford Parks and Tuesday's Inspiration

"Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed.

Maybe they just need to run till they find

someone just as wild to run with them."

-Sarah Jessica Parker 

Brantford Parks and Monday's Inspiration

"Everything has beauty,

but not everyone sees it."

-Confucius

Brantford Parks and the Weekend's Inspiration

"When you want something, all the universe

conspires in helping you achieve it."

-Paulo Coelho

Brantford Parks, Friday's Inspiration and a Life Changing Event.

"Be kind, for everyone you meet

is fighting a hard battle."

-Plato

There are a lot of big changes coming in the next few months for my life. Our house has sold after only being on the market for four days. The reason we sold our house is because at the end of this year my partner and I are going to be retiring to PANAMA. This is going to be the achievement of a lifetime goal for my partner and I because we both hate the Canadian winters and have always dreamed of living in a warmer climate where you can grow palm trees. The area of Panama we are going to is in the crater of a dormant volcano and the temperatures average 22C during the day and 17C during the night 365 days a year. I will keep everyone updated as to our progress.

Brantford Parks and Wednesday's Inspiration

"The most decisive actions of our life...

are most often unconsidered actions."

-Andre Gide

Brantford Parks and Thursdays Inspiration

"Adventure is worthwhile."

-Amelia Earhart

Brantford Parks and Tuesday's Inspiration

"Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the

bumblebee, the small child, and the smiling faces.

Smell the rain, feel the wind. Live your life to the 

fullest potential, and fight for your dreams."

-Ashley Smith

Brantford Parks and Monday's Inspiration

"Keys to success... Research your ideas,

plan for success, expect success,

and just plain do it."

-Josh H. Hinds

Brantford Parks and the Weekend's Inspiration

"There can be no friendship without confidence,

and no confidence without integrity."

-Samuel Johnson

Brantford Parks and Friday's Inspiration

"Action and becoming are one."

-Meister Eckhart

Brantford Parks and Thursday's Inspiration

"Life is just one damned thing after another."

-Elbert Hubbard

Brantford Parks and Wednesday's Inspiration

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream

of the future, concentrate the mind

on the present moment."

-Buddha

Brantford Parks and Tuesday's Inspiration

"There is 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

Brantford Parks and Monday's Inspiration

"The whole theory of the universe is

directed unerringly to one single

individual- namely to You."

-Walt Whitman

Brantford Parks and the Weekends Inspiration

"Dreams pass into the reality of action.

From the actions stems the dream again;

and this interdependence produces the

highest form of living."

-Anais Nin

Brantford Parks and Friday's Inspiration

"The habit of doing one's duty drives out fear."

-Charles Baudelaire

Brantford Parks and Thursday's Inspiration

"Sometimes you don't need a goal in life,

you don't need to know the big picture. You just

need to know what you're going to do next."

-Sophie Kinsella 

Brantford Parks and Wednesday's Inspiration

This is a picture of the front of the War Memorial Statue here in Brantford. The Sculptures are done in life size. Below is a picture of the whole thing. If I am not mistaken this is the second largest war memorial in Canada. With so many of these only showing the men who fought in the wars it is refreshing to see women included in this one.

"I am always doing that which I cannot do,

in order that I may learn how to do it."

-Pablo Picasso

Brantford Parks and Thursday's Inspiration

"You will never be happy if you continue to search

for what happiness consists of. you will never live

if you are looking for the meaning of life."

-Albert Camus

Brantford Parks and Monday's Inspiration

"To understand is to forgive, even oneself."

-Alexander Chase

Brantford Parks and the Weekend's Inspiration

"Trust your own instinct.

Your mistakes might as well be your own,

instead of someone else's."

-Billy Wilder

Brantford Parks and Friday's Inspiration

"Once you choose hope, anything's possible."

-Christopher Reeve

Brantford Parks and Thursday's Inspiration

"The most beautiful makeup

of a woman is passion.

But cosmetics are easier to buy."

-Yves Saint Laurent

Brantford Parks and Wednesday's Inspiration

"Make the most of yourself,

for that is all there is of you."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Brantford Parks and Tuesday's Inspiration

"Life is what we make it,

always has been, always will be."

-Grandma Moses

Brantford Parks and Monday's Inspiration

"Think positively about yourself."

-Norman Vincent Peale

Brantford Parks and the Weekend's Inspiration

"Good instincts usually tell you what to do

long before your head has figured it out."

-Michael Burke

Brantford Parks and Friday's Inspiration

"Isn't it nice to think tomorrow

is a new day with no mistakes in it yet."

-Lucy Maud Montgomery