Therapeutic Recreation Specialists are special people that not only touch the lives of the individuals we work with but they improve their quality of life by successfully allowing them to overcome barriers, achieve leisure optimally with limited about of assistance.
Pamela Higginbotham, Second Year, Brock University Recreation and Leisure Student

"Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees." 
J. Willard Marriott
submitted by Beverly Davison

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” Gustav Mahler
submitted by Beverly Davison

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
Helen Keller
submitted by Beverly Davison

" Leisure is an essential part of life so remember to TReat yourself right!"
Ana Osborne, Therapeutic Recreation Specialist.

"Therapeutic Recreation - Loisir Thérapeutique: For leisure, for health and well being, for a joie de vivre! Pour le loisir... pour la santé et le bien-être... pour la joie de vivre!"
Therapeutic Recreation Association of Quebec - L'association de loisir thérapeutique du Québec.

Recreation involves the “whole being.”
Vanessa Alvino BS CTRS

"An occupational therapist works with a patient from the waist up, a physical therapist works with a patient from the waist down, and a recreational therapist works with a patient from the inside out."
Ed Kesgen

"Recreation's purpose is not to kill time, but to make life, not to keep a person occupied, but to keep them refreshed; no to offer an escape from life, but to provide a discovery of life."
-Author Unknown
(Submitted by Randy Ellen Blaustein, MA, CTRS)

"Quality of Life," without wholesome recreation....how is this possible?
Nancy M. Morrow - CTRS, Houston, TX

Leisure/recreation is a state on mind. It is an inner place of peace and a bridge which connects to others in a meaningful way.
From the poem of Kathy O, Kefee
(submitted by Mike Scott, TRS/CTRS)

Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.
Randy Swedburg
(submitted by Stephane Marcoux)

Most people are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

Therapeutic Recreation - We put FUN into FUNctional.
Jerem Brunk, C.T.R.S.

"People pay for what they do. And even more for who they become. The pay simply by the lives that they lead."
James Baldwin
(submitted by Brett Vess, CTRS)

"You can learn more about a man in an hour of play than in a lifetime of conversation."
PLATO
(submitted by Melissa Weger, CTRS)

Intelligence is like a river. The deeper it flows, the less noise it makes
- author unknown
(submitted by Corey Angst)

May the FLOW be with you!
Jo-Anne Harrison, Recreation Therapist, Surrey, BC, Canada

"We can drive with one headlight."
- Wallflowers (TR or RT does it matter?)

"Somewhere over the rainbow lies a fun future for us all."
- Raymond Archer, BS MA CTRS

Success is never final,
Failure is never fatal;
It is courage that counts.
Winston Churchill
(submitted by Fred Horstman, Indiana State University)

Obstacles are what we see only when we lose sight of our goals.
unknown
(submitted by Laura Martino)

The power of Commitment: "The only change in thinking that can change your life is the change of thinking that follows the transformation of the thinker."
Douglas M. Yeaman

Therapeutic Recreation shows people how to recreate (first e makes long e sound) and recreate (first e makes short e sound) their lives.
Lisa R. Spivey, C.T.R.S., Baton Rouge, Louisiana

What we do during do during our working hours determine what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.
George Eastman

You are your attitude.
Bruno Hans Geba

Too many activities, and people, and things. Too many worth activities, valuable things, and interesting people.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
Billy Joel

The only people who never fail are those who never try.
Ilka Chase

Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles M. Schulz

If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing.
A saying from Zimbabwe

Progress involves risk. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
Frederick Wilcox

Love yourself first and everything else falls in line.
Lucille Ball

We don't make mistakes. We just have learnings.
Anee Wilson Schaef

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas

It is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body.
Henry David Thoreau

Storms make trees take deeper root.
Claude McDonald

Listen to the sounds of silence.
Paul Simon

A hug is a perfect gift-- one size fits all, and nobody minds if you exchange it.
Ivern Ball

Creation is everything you do. Make something.
Ntozake Shange

I think I can-- I think I can-- I think I can-- I think I can--
The Little Engine That Could (Watty Piper)

You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try.
Kathy Seligman

The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Gary Player

Therapeutic Recreation is about not about looking at the capabilities of the individuals but the abilities that make that individual who they are.
Pamela Higginbotham, Second Year, Brock University Recreation and Leisure Student

Therapeutic Recreation: We're more than just fun and games.
Stephanie Parker

Therapeutic Recreation: LiFe; Leisure inteventions, Functional experiences
Deanna Tahau, 3rd year student at EIT New Zealand

"If bread is the necessity of life, recreation is a close second"
Edward Bellamy
(submitted by Diane McGuire)

"I slept and i dreamed that life is all joy, i woke and i saw that life is
all service. I served and i saw that serivce is joy."
Mother Theresa
(Submitted by Deborah)

Past the beggar and the suffering walked he who asks, "why, oh god, do you not do something for these people? To which god replied, "i did do something, I made you."
Old Sufi saying
(Submitted by Deborah)

Therapeutic Recreation: "The Poss-Abilities Are Endless..."
Tricia Guthrie, TR student

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music"
- Aldous Huxley

"Therapeutic Recreation is "Serious" fun."
Cindy S. Austin, C.T.R.S. The Bradley Center (South) Canonsburg, PA

"Not all leisure experiences in community settings need to be successful, but the privilege to achieve or fail is a part of a learning process that for too long has been denied individuals with disabilities."
-Stuart Schleien & M. Tipton Ray
(Submitted by Randy Ellen Blaustein, MA, CTRS)

"The mind is like a piсata, when you break it open it's full of surprises!"
Bryan Scott, Recreation Therapist at St. Mary's of the Lake Hospital, Ontario

Recreation offers the discovery of self satisfying pleasures ....a time for social expression and much needed family cohesion.
Nancy M. Morrow - CTRS, Houston, TX

Positive thinking is your sunshine on a cloudy day.
ROZ Highfield

Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it
author unknown
(submitted by Corey Angst)

"He who knows all of the answers, ends up solving all of the problems by himself."
Brett Vess, CTRS

Of all the things you wear, your smile is most important
-author unknown
(submitted by Corey Angst)

"I am not Julie McCoy, cruise director!"
Jim Dowd
(submitted by Richard Fritz, M.Ed. CTRS)

"Have fun and be Safe or be Safe and have Fun, Either way you win."
Juan Carlos Lozano, CTRS

"Just because the sun goes down, doesn't mean it's not going to come up."
Denise, CTRS

You may be on the right track, but you'll still get ran over if you just sit there.
Roy Rogers
(submitted by Tom Asuncion, CTRS in Kansas City, MO.)

A mistake is an opportunity to learn but, an opportunity to learn doesn't necessarily have to be a mistake.
anonymous
(submitted by deanna Poxton)

Attitude: "The more I live the more I understand that life is not a 50/50 proposition but rather LIFE is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it."
anonymous

"I will see problems as opportunities to tap into my stamina, creativity, and courage" " A crisis is a challenge to mobilize the best in myself and grow"
Harold H. Bloomfield M.D. and Sirah Vettese, Ph.D.

Anger " Anger is a negative indulgence. I refuse to wallow in anger. I use anger to motivate me into taking the affirmative action of my choice. Anger is but my stepping stone to creativity."
Anita Richelieu, D.R.S.

The word recreation is really a very beautiful word. It is defined in the dictionary as "the process of giving new life to something, of refreshing something, of restoring something." This something, of course, is the whole person.
Bruno Hans Geba

There is no "f," "u," nor "n" in Alcohol.
Frank Jarman, Activity Technician, Chestnut Ridge Hospital

Perfection is a perfect bore.
John-Roger and Peter McWilliams

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn. - Benjamin Franklin

I'd rather be failing at something I enjoy than be a success at something I hate.
George Burns

Never give in, never, never, never, never.
Winston Churchill

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Albert Einstein

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.
Knute K. Rockne