Mansour Moments: Blue Ridge Parkway

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Blue Ridge Parkway

We drove along 20 miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway while Taye took a nap in the car. Grandfather Mountain was closed, but we got to see the beautiful view from Moses Cone Mansion, a beautiful frozen waterfall, and lots of other pretty sites. It was great to see in winter, but we'll definitely want to come back in Spring and Autumn too.

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Words for Reflection

“The soul would have no rainbow, had the eyes no tears.” - Native American Proverb

"You never really understand a person . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." - Harper Lee (via Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird)

“Where you come from is not nearly as important as where you’re going.” -unknown

“Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.” -Aristotle

“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.” - Booker T. Washington

"Brick and mortar build a house; the laughter of children make a home." - Irish Proverb

"It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised; the mosquito is swatted." - Marie O'Conner

"I feel much better now that I've lost all hope." - T-shirt

“From what we get, we can make a living; what we give however makes a life.” -Arthur Ashe

“Justifying a fault doubles it.” - French Proverb

“It’s not having what you want. It’s wanting what you’ve got.” -Sheryl Crow

"A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds." - British Nursery Rhyme

"Be the change you want to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi

“Peace comes not from the absence of conflict in life, but from the ability to cope with it.” -unknown

“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think.” -Bill Beattie

"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." - Abigail Adams

"Hope is not about a good outcome. Hope is about making sense of what's going on in life." - Dr. Oz on knowing Randy Pausch

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” -Martin Luther King Jr.