This post is inspired by a quotation I clipped from the top of the Vineyard Gazette newspaper, and which I have had pinned to my wall for many years as wonderful words to live by: 

To let no bird fly past unnoticed… to have the mind a storehouse of sunsets,
requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude.
~G.K. Chesterton

Here are a few summer photographs from life here on the Vineyard, mixed with quotations from my One Hundred Fortunes Collection.

We are not separate from Being.  We are in it.  ~Plotinus

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
D.H. Lawrence

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. ~Goethe

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
~Henry David Thoreau

In every human being, there is a special heaven
whole and unbroken.
~Paracelsus

At the center of your being you have the answer.
You know who you are
and you know what you want.
~Lao Tzu

The only wealth is life.
~Henry David Thoreau