01UndatedThe greatest work of Art, is life. The greatest calling, lifting, sharing that Art. May these hands, this heart, complete its work,mixed in company,and laughter,within the capsule of time gifted,on the canvas one may fill.Tom Althouse / quote ↗
02UndatedDoing what you love, with those you love, is an adventurous type of success. The kind that can not be taken away, often discovered by those who have had much taken away, and saw it as an opportunity to re-access their path, and reset from the crucible of shared and beneficial dreams.Tom Althouse / quote ↗
03UndatedNot all who demand your attention desire your happiness, many merely seeking a conveyance to their own. It is entirely easy when wrapped up with the petty to miss what is possible and what rows your ship to worthwhile dreams. But when two or more fall together to share the oars of what might be, dreams may find them in equal measure and as fast as the wake made.Tom Althouse / quote ↗
04UndatedWhat lies ahead? Worrying about it or creating it. Both requires a choice, one opens the door.Tom Althouse / quote ↗
05UndatedSome people spend their whole lives seeking heaven, when all they needed to do was look about them, and embrace that which was already there.Tom Althouse / quote ↗
06UndatedThere is beauty all around us, and the light finds us when we realize, we are all part of that beauty and worth the cherishing. If we despise any, we journey to despise ourselves. See all as beautiful, even if they choose to see themselves through you, as being less than so. We have the power to see for each, and be the reflection of what they may yet see.Tom Althouse / quote ↗
07UndatedNo matter how busy we may believe we are, we have the wonderful opportunity presently of investing time with loved ones. For those are the great investments we will be glad we made, when time begins to slow and the ability to tend turns tender.Tom Althouse / quote ↗
09UndatedTo experience courage, is to experience life. Reflected in loved ones, the greatest encouragement. Dignity, integrity and strength, a harmonious chord, interwoven into an unbreakable cord.Tom Althouse / quote ↗
11UndatedDefeat is only defeat if we accept it as defeat. Victory often comes after defeat, because one was too stubborn to allow it to be their reality. In the trail of any great conflict you will see the scuff marks, where the one was beaten down, but they could not be taught to stay that way.Tom Althouse / quote ↗
14UndatedIs it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.Tom Althouse / quote ↗
15UndatedTo win or lose often depends on set parameters. Expand the bounds of what is possible, and you may come out the true winner, outside the confines of its defining.Tom Althouse / quote ↗
16UndatedTime is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream.Tom Althouse / quote ↗
17UndatedLet go and go beyond living the dream, by dreaming the reality, into a reality beyond the dream.Tom Althouse / quote ↗
18UndatedMy goal is not to upset the apple cart, but to make it more accessible.Tom Althouse / quote ↗
19UndatedIn these times where it has seemed dark indeedwhere integrity appears solely buried in legend and lore, it is an opportunity in contrast to the shadows, to create miracles...by choosing first courage, then diligence, standing, opening our mouth and speaking the truth that in rare moments, may ignite the light.Tom Althouse / quote ↗
20UndatedMore and more obstacles seem to be other people's issues that form in the way of a hand to block one, to take notice of them? Sometimes noticing ahead of time, and taking the time to notice them, makes the hand part of an arm that embraces you. The obstacles become bridges for both to cross over, even if in opposite directions.Tom Althouse / quote ↗
21UndatedThe only way I could conceive of waving a white flag, would be during the process of folding it, so to be used as a napkin later, at our victory dinner.Tom Althouse / quote ↗
22UndatedYou are the water that flows freely, the most dynamic force on the planet with the ability to change course and outlook at any time. You can be a raging river or a placid pond. A source of nourishment, or a breaker of walls. Part of an ocean or a solitary drop. You are dynamic, you are beauty, you are life.Tom Althouse / quote ↗
23UndatedParenting is a sacred responsibility with the sobering reality, of raising scholars or scars.Tom Althouse / quote ↗
24UndatedTheater is the crucible where we can create the dynamics of life without suffering the flames of their combustion.Tom Althouse / quote ↗