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Image of the Day February 7, 2011

Mt Auburn St. Alterations Shop Watertown, Ma

Sitting in the window

This is a fun shot from a photo walk around Watertown today, enjoy…

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Benjamin Franklin

Daily Edits for New Years Eve December 31, 2011

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

Image of the day New Years Eve December 31, 2011

work as a team

Image of the day New Years Eve 2011

 

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily edits Christmas Day 2011

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Merry Christmas to you and yours….

Daily edits for December 21, 2011

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Life is a choice not a requirement, what are you doing to help release the true you today?  Merry Christmas to all and a Happy 2012 as well…

Image of the day December 20, 2011

The Black and White tree

full bloom Image of the day december 20,2011

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
William James

Daily edits for December 19, 2011

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
Henry David Thoreau

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.
Lord Chesterfield

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Thomas Paine

Image of the day December 15, 2011

yard decorations for christmas

Image of the day December 15, 2011

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.  ~Charles Dickens

 

Nov 26 the edits

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To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one’s own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
Plato

Everybody wants to be somebody;
nobody wants to grow.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.
Hamerton

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. 
Herbert Otto

Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.
Marquise du Deffand

Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
A. Bronson Alcott

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin

If we all did the things we are capable of,
we would astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison

Image of the day November 23, 2011

Selling his Wares

If you would create something,
you must be something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Leon J. Suenes

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
Horace Bushnell