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| Margaret'sPages of Tranquility, Serenity, Words of Inspiration and Wisdom |
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| In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life -- It Goes On. Robert Frost |
| Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one threat within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. Chief Seattle |
| Come on down the Secret Path and see some pictures taken in Hawaii |
| The entrance to Thurston Lava Tube |
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| Native tree fern on Big Island |
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| Yellow flowers of the mamani |
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| Ka'u silversword grows on the slopes of Mauna Loa |
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| The i'iwi feeds on native raspberry |
| Kamehameha butterfly |
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| Happyface spiders in the rainforest |
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| Pink flowers on the banana poka |
| Coming together is a beginning. thinking together is unity. keeping together is progress. Working together is success. Lord Baden-Powell |
| One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are. Gail Goodwin |
| Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and we know we cannot live within. James Baldwin |
| Angels are often silent, but they are listening to every thought that stirs our souls |
| Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge. Stephen Levine |
| The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials, the most money, or the most awards. They are the ones who care. |
| Happy memories are the little treasures of each day |
| Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels. G H Lewis |
| Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow b ut not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate. William Arthur Ward |
| Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch you actions; they become habits. Watch you habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. Frank Outlaw |
| Character is the result of two things; mental attitude and the way we spend our time. Elbert Hubbard |
| There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as the expectation of tomorrow |
| This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have recieved instructions on where to go and what to do. |
| The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. Martin Luther King,Jr |
| You are only wise if you can learn something from everybody. You are only rich if you are happy with what you already have. |
| It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
| Our greatest glory is not in never failing,but in rising every time we fail. ~Conficious~ |
| It is always important to remember the wind from one door closing opens another one. |
| A day is not wasted if a memory is made |
| A man can only do what a man can do. But if he doest hat each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day. Albert Schweitzer |
| Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. St Francis De Sales |
| Friends fill you life with joy ... your soul with sunshine and your heart with love |
| Don't spend your life with someone you can live with, spend it with the one you can't live without |
| How a man plays the game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it |
| Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a New World is born. Anais Nin |
| If something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it is probably not worth knowing anyways. Calvin & Hobbes |
| Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either. Golda Meir |
| Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. Mark Twain |
| Be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these. Bob Goddard |
| Page made 20 August 2001 updated 9 Feb. 2006 |