Day 150: "Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means." - Leo Buscaglia, Living Loving and Learning #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth May 30, 2014 at 11:43PM

May 30, 2014 at 11:43PM Day 150: "Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means." - Leo Buscaglia, Living Loving and Learning #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth

Day 149: "Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you." - Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth May 30, 2014 at 01:10AM

May 30, 2014 at 01:10AM Day 149: "Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you." - Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth

Day 148: "Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would give my life for you. This is the miracle of life." - Maureen Hawkins, First Interest in a Wider World #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth May 28, 2014 at 10:08PM

May 28, 2014 at 10:08PM Day 148: "Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would give my life for you. This is the miracle of life." - Maureen Hawkins, First Interest in a Wider World #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth

Day 147: "When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can [love] them for who they are." - Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth May 27, 2014 at 09:51PM

May 27, 2014 at 09:51PM Day 147: "When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can [love] them for who they are." - Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth

Day 146: "Scars are not injuries. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole." - China Miéville, The Scar #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth May 26, 2014 at 10:50PM

May 26, 2014 at 10:50PM Day 146: "Scars are not injuries. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole." - China Miéville, The Scar #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth

Day 145: "Once you cut negative people out of your life, and you start doing positive things with your life you'll be a lot happier, and stress free." - Sonya Parker #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth May 26, 2014 at 12:03AM

May 26, 2014 at 12:03AM Day 145: "Once you cut negative people out of your life, and you start doing positive things with your life you'll be a lot happier, and stress free." - Sonya Parker #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth

Day 144: "Life is like a merry-go-round. It is full of ups and downs, sometimes you feel like you're just going in circles, but when the ride ends, you want to do it again!" - Linda Poindexter #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth May 25, 2014 at 01:11AM

May 25, 2014 at 01:11AM Day 144: "Life is like a merry-go-round. It is full of ups and downs, sometimes you feel like you're just going in circles, but when the ride ends, you want to do it again!" - Linda Poindexter #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth

Day 143: "People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts." - Veronica Roth, Insurgent May 24, 2014 at 12:48AM

May 24, 2014 at 12:48AM Day 143: "People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts." - Veronica Roth, Insurgent

Day 142: "When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable." - Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth May 22, 2014 at 11:27PM

May 22, 2014 at 11:27PM Day 142: "When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable." - Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth

Day 141: "Be your beautiful self. Develop your inner resources. Everything you need you already have inside you. If you're a little uncomfortable with what you see, uneasy with the restlessness that you feel inside, and can't quite trust your inner voice- that's God's way of trying to speak through you, to stir you up to move forward. Listen carefully. Choose your direction wisely. Don't be afraid to ask for help if you're not fully equipped. We're beautiful when we strive to reach a greater potential within ourselves. But we're most beautiful, when we help someone else reach theirs." - Rita Said #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth May 21, 2014 at 10:50PM

May 21, 2014 at 10:50PM Day 141: "Be your beautiful self. Develop your inner resources. Everything you need you already have inside you. If you're a little uncomfortable with what you see, uneasy with the restlessness that you feel inside, and can't quite trust your inner voice- that's God's way of trying to speak through you, to stir you up to move forward. Listen carefully. Choose your direction wisely. Don't be afraid to ask for help if you're not fully equipped. We're beautiful when we strive to reach a greater potential within ourselves. But we're most beautiful, when we help someone else reach theirs." - Rita Said #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth

Day 140: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” - Maryanne Williamson #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth May 20, 2014 at 10:26PM

May 20, 2014 at 10:26PM Day 140: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” - Maryanne Williamson #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth

Day 139: "There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life [ironically, I had a painful experience making today's apad] #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth May 20, 2014 at 12:15AM

May 20, 2014 at 12:15AM Day 139: "There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life [ironically, I had a painful experience making today's apad] #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth

Day 138: "What is home? My favorite definition is "a safe place," a place where one is free from attack, a place where one experiences secure relationships and affirmation. It's a place where people share and understand each other. Its relationships are nurturing. The people in it do not need to be perfect; instead, they need to be honest, loving, supportive, recognizing a common humanity that makes all of us vulnerable." - Gladys Hunt, Honey for a Child's Heart #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth May 18, 2014 at 11:03PM

May 18, 2014 at 11:03PM Day 138: "What is home? My favorite definition is "a safe place," a place where one is free from attack, a place where one experiences secure relationships and affirmation. It's a place where people share and understand each other. Its relationships are nurturing. The people in it do not need to be perfect; instead, they need to be honest, loving, supportive, recognizing a common humanity that makes all of us vulnerable." - Gladys Hunt, Honey for a Child's Heart #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth

Day 137: "Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You." - Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You! Special Tribute to @pereiraalicia and @pearp1cker! #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth May 17, 2014 at 11:43PM

May 17, 2014 at 11:43PM Day 137: "Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You." - Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You! Special Tribute to @pereiraalicia and @pearp1cker! #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth

Day 136: "Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time." - Georgia O'Keeffe, One Hundred Flowers #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth May 16, 2014 at 11:41PM

May 16, 2014 at 11:41PM Day 136: "Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time." - Georgia O'Keeffe, One Hundred Flowers #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth

An interruption to my apad in the hope of receiving $100! @pullandbearsg May 16, 2014 at 06:48AM

May 16, 2014 at 06:48AM An interruption to my apad in the hope of receiving $100! @pullandbearsg

Day 135: "There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up." - Booker T. Washington (Which would you rather do?) #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth May 16, 2014 at 12:58AM

May 16, 2014 at 12:58AM Day 135: "There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up." - Booker T. Washington (Which would you rather do?) #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth

Day 134: Underneath my outside face There's a face that none can see. A little less smiley, A little less sure, But a whole lot more like me. - Shel Silverstein, "Underface", Every Thing on It #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth May 14, 2014 at 11:05PM

May 14, 2014 at 11:05PM Day 134: Underneath my outside face There's a face that none can see. A little less smiley, A little less sure, But a whole lot more like me. - Shel Silverstein, "Underface", Every Thing on It #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth

Day 133: "“Are we running away from home?” I asked, giving voice to the question that had been on my mind for two days... My mother had laughed...“No, silly goose. You can’t run away from home. It’s not home if you want to run away from it...“You can only run away from a house. Home is something you run toward." - Michele Jaffe, Ghost Flower #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth May 13, 2014 at 11:46PM

May 13, 2014 at 11:46PM Day 133: "“Are we running away from home?” I asked, giving voice to the question that had been on my mind for two days... My mother had laughed...“No, silly goose. You can’t run away from home. It’s not home if you want to run away from it...“You can only run away from a house. Home is something you run toward." - Michele Jaffe, Ghost Flower #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth

Day 132: "Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance..." - Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth May 12, 2014 at 10:44PM

May 12, 2014 at 10:44PM Day 132: "Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance..." - Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth

Day 130: "Secrets have a way of eating away at us from the inside." - Justin Somper, Tide of Terror #apad #may #themeofthemonth May 11, 2014 at 12:04AM

May 11, 2014 at 12:04AM Day 130: "Secrets have a way of eating away at us from the inside." - Justin Somper, Tide of Terror #apad #may #themeofthemonth

Day 129: "When you keep hurting someone, you do one of three things. Either you fill them up with hate, and they destroy everything around them. Or you fill them up with sadness, and they destroy themselves. Or you fill them up with justice, and they try to destroy everything that's bad and cruel in this world." - Nick Lake, In Darkness #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth May 09, 2014 at 11:32PM

May 09, 2014 at 11:32PM Day 129: "When you keep hurting someone, you do one of three things. Either you fill them up with hate, and they destroy everything around them. Or you fill them up with sadness, and they destroy themselves. Or you fill them up with justice, and they try to destroy everything that's bad and cruel in this world." - Nick Lake, In Darkness #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth

Day 128: "Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong." - Colleen Hoover, Hopeless #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth May 09, 2014 at 12:19AM

May 09, 2014 at 12:19AM Day 128: "Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong." - Colleen Hoover, Hopeless #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth

Day 126: "On the late afternoon streets, everyone hurries along, going about their own business. Who is the person walking in front of you on the...sidewalk? [His face] is covered with a [hat] and all you can see is a...coat and [his brown leather] shoes...And yet this person is the hero of his own life story. He is the love of someone’s life. And what he can do may change the world. Imagine being him for a moment...And then continue on your own way. - adapted from Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth May 06, 2014 at 10:08PM

May 06, 2014 at 10:08PM Day 126: "On the late afternoon streets, everyone hurries along, going about their own business. Who is the person walking in front of you on the...sidewalk? [His face] is covered with a [hat] and all you can see is a...coat and [his brown leather] shoes...And yet this person is the hero of his own life story. He is the love of someone’s life. And what he can do may change the world. Imagine being him for a moment...And then continue on your own way. - adapted from Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth

Day 125: "Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards." - Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth May 05, 2014 at 10:57PM

May 05, 2014 at 10:57PM Day 125: "Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards." - Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth

Day 124: "There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns." - Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth May 04, 2014 at 05:32PM

May 04, 2014 at 05:32PM Day 124: "There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns." - Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth

Day 123: "We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better." - C. JoyBell C. #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth May 03, 2014 at 03:43PM

May 03, 2014 at 03:43PM Day 123: "We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better." - C. JoyBell C. #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth

Day 122: "Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates." - Kate Angell #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth May 02, 2014 at 04:58PM

May 02, 2014 at 04:58PM Day 122: "Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates." - Kate Angell #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth

Day 121: "The bridge will only take you halfway there, to those mysterious lands you long to see. Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fair, and moonlit woods where unicorns run free. So come and walk awhile with me and share the twisting trails and wondrous worlds I've known. But this bridge will only take you halfway there. The last few steps you have to take alone." - Shel Silverstein #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth May 01, 2014 at 12:22PM

May 01, 2014 at 12:22PM Day 121: "The bridge will only take you halfway there, to those mysterious lands you long to see. Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fair, and moonlit woods where unicorns run free. So come and walk awhile with me and share the twisting trails and wondrous worlds I've known. But this bridge will only take you halfway there. The last few steps you have to take alone." - Shel Silverstein #alexaphotoaday #may #themeofthemonth