With every inhale, you are stepping into something far more expansive than it appears. The human nose can distinguish at least one trillion different scents, a number so large it feels slightly mischievous, like it’s challenging the imagination on purpose. That means your sense of smell is operating on a scale that surpasses the estimated 100 to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Your nose is keeping up with the cosmos!
We love to save our vulnerable moments for some mythical perfect timing, as if love prefers dramatic scenes and golden hour lighting. The truth is that life rarely waits for the script to be perfect. One day has a sneaky way of turning into never. Don’t blink because it goes by so fast. So let’s be cheerfully deliberate and shower the important people in our lives with love today, while the moment is delightfully ours.
The Canary Islands sound like they should be named after those cheerful little yellow songbirds, right? Sweet, delicate, maybe perched on a windowsill somewhere in the sun. Charming. Logical. Completely wrong.
The real story has a bit more bite.
Burnout’s a stealthy bandit swiping your shine in three mischievous ways. Outsmart it with clever tricks and a touch of whimsy!
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. ~ Carl Jung
There is only one remedy for the universal distress; a panacea for the sickness of the world. It is the gospel of Jesus Christ, the perfect law of life and liberty, which has been restored again in fulfilment of the scriptures. ~ George Albert Smith
Love your neighbor as yourself but don’t take down your fence. ~ Carl Sandburg
Perhaps the major reason the lord told us to love one another is that only through the experience of loving someone can we begin to understand the Lord’s love for us. ~ Elaine L. Jack
I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one. ~ Calamity Jane
The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths. ~ Barry H. Gillespie