Kayaking and Quotes

This past weekend Jim and I went kayaking with friends to a nearby river that we have paddled down many times before.


We have not, however, paddled it this late in the fall.

The last gasp of autumn was there with colorful foliage, but we also were amazed at how much the color gray is encroaching on the yellows and reds.



Despite the realization of how close winter really is, the gray had a beauty all of it's own too.

The pictures below that I snapped on our paddle need no explanations; just take them in.



Amidst the photos, I have inserted some of my favorite quotes.

I hope you will be inspired by one or two of them.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
-Dorothy Nevill

In the long run the pessimist may be proved right,
but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
-Daniel Reardon.

"The time is always right to do what is right."
-- Martin Luther King Jr

Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
-Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
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When one door of happiness closes, another opens;
But often we look so long at the closed door that
we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
-Helen Keller

It’s not what we have in our life but who we have in our life that counts.

-J. M. Laurence

“Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.

It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.”

-unknown

Life is what you make of it. Always has been; always will be.
Grandma Moses

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever you are be a good one.
-Abraham Lincoln

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 has not yet come.
Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering.
Ida Scott Taylor

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.
But what you want is someone who will take the bus
with you when the limo breaks down.
-Oprah Winfrey

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they
can grow separately without growing apart.
-Katherine Mansfield

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if
I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking
the successive autumns. ~George Eliot

If we were meant to pop out of bed, we’d all be toasters.

-Unknown