RON HENGGELER

November 25, 2020
Miscellaneous Photos & Random Quotes for a Pandemic Thanksgiving

A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things. Plato

All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.  Walt Whitman

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Tecumseh

The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. David Steindl-Rast

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.   Mahatma Gandhi

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King Jr.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. Elvis Presley

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.  John Ruskin

Before you complain today, be grateful you have breath to complain with. LeCrae

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. George Washington

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Pause and remember - Every single event in your life, especially the difficult lessons, have made you smarter, stronger, and wiser than you were yesterday. Be thankful! Jennifer Young

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. Joseph Campbell

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. Robert Breault

Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness.  Paul Brunton

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. Buddha

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer

Do every act of your life as if it were your last. Marcus Aurelius

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Melody Beattie

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. Jim Davis

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away. Ismail Haniyeh

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. Leonardo da Vinci

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.  Albert Einstein

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. Meister Eckhart

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching.  Gerald Way

Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.  Guillaume Apollinaire

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it! Ansel Adams

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. Albert Schweitzer

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. Aristotle

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low. Richard Carlson

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children. Sitting Bull

I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists. Maya Angelou

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.  Marc Riboud

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. John F. Kennedy

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. Alexander the Great

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.  Paul Brunton

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it. Albert Schweitzer

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.  Marcel Duchamp

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star. W. Clement Stone

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. Albert Einstein

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Francis of Assisi

 

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