Saturday, December 25, 2010

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
-John Wooden

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to
overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our
suffering.
-Ben Okri
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is godlike.
-Horace Mann

Monday, December 20, 2010

Whenever Christmas begins to burden, it's a sign that I've taken on
something of the world and not of Christ...
Christmas cannot be bought. Christmas cannot be created. Christmas
cannot be made by hand. Christmas can only be found.
-Ann Voskamp

Friday, December 17, 2010

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius

Monday, December 13, 2010

The only people for me are the mad ones,
the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk,
mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time,
the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn,
like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and
in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!
-Jack Kerouac

Friday, December 10, 2010

Happy thou art not;
For what thou hast not,
still thou strivest to get,
And what thou hast, forget'st.
-William Shakespeare
from Measure for Measure
It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always
when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always
lies in the learning process itself.
-Cathy Lee Crosby

Thursday, December 9, 2010

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the
right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting
moment.
-Lady Dorothy Nevill
The Lord gives guidance to the thoughtful, not the unthinking.
-Matthew Henry

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four.
If still boring, then eight.
Then sixteen. Then thirty-two.
Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
-John Cage

Monday, December 6, 2010

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
-Ira Gershwin

Monday, November 29, 2010

Our greatest weariness comes from work undone.
-Eric Hoffer

Monday, November 22, 2010

Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who
is youer than you!
-Dr. Seuss

Friday, November 19, 2010

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
-Voltaire

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could;
some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day;
you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be
encumbered with your old nonsense.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.
-Hyman Rickover
Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.
-Lorraine Hansberry
Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.
-William Faulkner

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Be kind,
for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
-Plato

Monday, November 15, 2010

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
-Jim Henson

Sunday, November 14, 2010

But the biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while
doing this. I did not live in the moment enough. this is particularly
clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. there
is one picture of the three of them sitting in the grass on a quilt in
the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages 6, 4 and 1. And I
wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how
they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I
had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner,
bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and
the getting it done a little less."
-Anna Quindlen

Friday, November 12, 2010

He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome
counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.
By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and
pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.
- R.H. Barrow

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts the moment you get up and
doesn't stop until you get into the office.
-Robert Frost

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

-Rudyard Kipling

Monday, November 8, 2010

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
-Mary Pickford
There is no grace for your imagination. But there is grace for TODAY.
"As your days" it says in Deuteronomy, "so shall your strength be"
(33: 25). Charles Spurgeon says, "The Lord, the ever-merciful, has
appointed every moment of sorrow and pang of suffering. If He ordains
the number ten, it can never rise to eleven, nor should you desire
that it shrink to nine"
-Charles Spurgeon

Friday, November 5, 2010

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could
only do a little.
-Edmund Burke

Thursday, November 4, 2010

I can wade grief
Whole pools of it - I'm used to that.
But the least push of joy
Breaks up my feet,
And I tip - drunken.
-Emily Dickinson

Monday, November 1, 2010

The past is behind you, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare
for it. The present is here, LIVE IT.
-Thomas S. Monson
Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
-Salman Rushdie
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under
differing conditions.
-Mark Twain

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who
would be useful and happy in their usefulness.
-Charles W. Eliot
The last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any
given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
-Viktor Frankl
Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste.
-Benjamin Franklin

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day.
-Unknown
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant
things as interruptions of one's "own," or "real" life. The truth is
of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's
real life—the life God is sending one day by day; what one calls one's
"real life" is a phantom of one's own imagination. This at least is
what I see at moments of insight: but it's hard to remember it all the
time.
-C.S. Lewis

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been
playing all your life.
-Mickey Mantle

Friday, October 15, 2010

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided
by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
-Gene Fowler

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Folks today have...got this idea that self-respect means 'I am a
terrific person. I am wonderful. Me, me, me.' That's not self-respect;
that's vanity.
-Bessie Delany
God cannot give us happiness and peace
apart from Himself because it is not there.
There is no such thing.
-C.S. Lewis

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
-Helen Keller

Thursday, September 30, 2010

When 99% of people doubt your idea, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history.
-Scott Belsky

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Let the beauty we love be what we do.
-Rumi
Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling
in love with you I had no control over.
-Unknown
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that
you can't utter.
-James Earl Jones
For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as
bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood
do but make it pulse more vigorously.
-George Gissing
To wait open-endedly is an enormously radical attitude toward life. So
is to trust that something will happen to us that is far beyond our
imaginings. So, too, is giving up control over our future and letting
God define our life, trusting that God molds us according to His love
and not according to our fear... That, indeed, is a very radical
stance toward life in a world preoccupied with control.
-Henri Nouwen
The truth is a trap: you can not get it without it getting you; you
cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.
-Soren Kierkegaard
Resentment and gratitude cannot coexist, since resentment blocks the
perception and experience of life as a gift.
-Henri Nouwen
So I go to church, not because of any legalistic or moralistic reasons,
but because I am a hungry sheep who needs to be fed;
and for the same reason that I wear a wedding ring: a public witness
of a private commitment.
-Madeleine L'Engle
He who makes himself his own master subjects himself to a fool for a master.
-Bernard of Clairvaux
There are four ways God answers prayer:
1) No, not yet;
2) No, I love you too much;
3) Yes, I thought you'd never ask;
4) Yes, and here's more.
-Anne Lewis

Monday, September 27, 2010

Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night.
-Glade Byron Addams

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Be kind. For everyone is fighting a hard battle.
-Plato

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never
yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.
-Johann Kaspar Lavater
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-Grace Hansen
Expect hope to be rekindled.
Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways.
The dry seasons in life do not last.
-Sarah Ban Breathnach

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

I like flaws and feel more comfortable
around people who have them.
I myself am made entirely of flaws,
stitched together with good intentions.
-Augusten Burroughs

Monday, September 20, 2010

True love stories never have endings.
-Richard Bach

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of
other people's business.
-Dolley Madison
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
-Benjamin Franklin

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

By all these lovely tokens September days are here,
With summer's best of weather
And autumn's best of cheer.
-Helen Hunt Jackson

Monday, September 13, 2010

By hating someone, you have lost something very sweet in yourself.
-Sri Chinmoy
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that
you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
-Rainer Maria Rilke

Friday, September 10, 2010

Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable
with change and the unknown. Given the nature of life, there may be no
security, but only adventure.
-Rachel Naomi Remen

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
-Joseph Joubert
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to
ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should
know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to
know it.
-Sir William Haley
Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
-Garrison Keillor

Saturday, September 4, 2010

When summer gathers up her robes of glory,
And, like a dream, glides away.
-Sarah Helen Whitman
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
-C. G. Jung
Large changes are brought about by the accumulation of small decisions.
-Alfred E. Kahn
If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you
will ignore what is.
-Unknown

Friday, September 3, 2010

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change
them yourself.
-Andy Warhol
I have decided to be happy because it is good for my health.
-Voltaire
So one thing I want to say about life is don't be scared and don't
hang back, and most of all, don't waste it.
-Joan W. Blos

Friday, August 27, 2010

Goals are dreams with deadlines.
-Diana Scharf Hunt
Joy is the daughter of peace.
-Finnish proverb
Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
-George S. Patton Jr.
Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered.
-Pierre Corneille

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Love is the beauty of the soul.
-St. Augustine
The place where God calls us is the place where our deep joy and the
world's deep hunger meet.
-Frederick Buechner
We must love one another or die.
-Auden
A happy marriage is the union of two forgivers.
-Ruth Bell Graham
There is no other happiness than God, and ourselves united to him.
-Pascal

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.
-Whoopi Goldberg
Your Savior knows your breaking point.
The bruising and crushing and melting process is designed to reshape
you, not ruin you.
Your value is increasing the longer He lingers over you.
-Terry Rush
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a
prudent enemy is preferable.
-Jean de La Fontaine

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Have courage for the great sorrows of life
and patience for the small ones;
and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task,
go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
-Victor Hugo
You can upgrade every aspect of your life without a lot of money
and with no more time than you're spending now.
Start... with the simplest of discernments,
choosing something that's just a bit delightful
over something that isn't.
-Victoria Moran
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs
and returns home to find it.
-George Moore
Nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass,
glory in the flower.
We will grieve not,
rather find strength in what remains behind.
-William Wordsworth
When I think I'm going under,
part the waters, Lord.
When I feel the waves around me,
calm the sea.
When I cry for help, oh, hear me, Lord
and hold out Your hand...
Touch my life,
Still the raging storm in me.
-Charles F. Brown
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
-Emily Dickinson
Dreams are postcards from our subconscious,
inner self to outer self,
right brain trying to cross that moat to the left.
-from Northern Exposure
Home is the nicest word there is.
-Laura Ingalls Wilder
A bargain is something you can't use
at a price you can't resist.
-Franklin Jones
I dwell in possibility.
-Emily Dickinson
Knitting is very conducive to thought.
It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles,
write a while, then take up ... again.
-Dorothy Day
Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
-Larry Niven
Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
Spring has returned
The Earth is like a child
that knows poems.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap
but by the seeds that you plant.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
The trouble with organizing...
is that pretty soon folks get to paying
more attention to the organization
than to what they're organized for.
-Laura Ingalls Wilder
It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.
-Charles Fillmore
Show me your garden
and I shall tell you what you are.
-Alfred Austin
Green is the prime color of the world,
and that from which its loveliness arises.
-Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Spring beckons!
All things to the call respond;
the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
-Ambrose Bierce
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
-Jane Austen
Do not abandon yourselves to despair.
We are the Easter people
And hallelujah is our song.
-Pope John Paul II
The peace and beauty of a spring day
had descended upon the earth
like a benediction.
-Kate Chopin
Good apple pies are a considerable part
of our domestic happiness.
-Jane Austen
There is not much danger that real talent
or goodness will be overlooked long.
-Louisa May Alcott
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you get simple beauty and naught else,
you get about the best thing God invents.
-Robert Browning
There are few hours in life more agreeable
than the hour dedicated to the
ceremony known as afternoon tea.
-Henry James
All lovely things will have an ending.
-Conrad Aiken
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt,
head in the sun, heart with nature.
To nurture a garden is to feed
not just on the body, but the soul.
-Alfred Austin
I like being outdoors.
It is just another world.
-Bette Page
A sister is a little bit of childhood
that can never be lost.
-Marion C. Garretty
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is
exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only
different kinds of good weather.
-John Ruskin
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer
is too small to be made into a burden.
-Corrie Ten Boom
Life is full and overflowing with the new.
But it is necessary to empty out the old
to make room for the new to enter.
-Eileen Caddy
I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
-Marilyn Monroe
Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough
to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.
-Frank A. Clark
A letter is a good way to go somewhere
without moving anything but your heart.
-Phyllis Theroux
I remember my mother's prayers
and they have always followed me.
They have clung to me all my life.
-Abraham Lincoln
Bread... and butter are of venerable antiquity.
They taste of the morning of the world.
-Leigh Hunt
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
I adore simple pleasures.
They are the last refuge of the complex.
-Oscar Wilde
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
-OVID
Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
-Barbara deAngelis
Summer has filled her veins with light
and her heart is washed with noon.
-C. Day Lewis
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
-Max Beerbohm
 Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and someday I would arrive at it.
-Camryn Manheim
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
-Wayne Dyer

Monday, August 16, 2010

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety.
It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
-Swami Kriyananda

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
-Dee Hock

Monday, August 9, 2010

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
-Neil Armstrong

Friday, August 6, 2010

I am in love with Ocean
lifting her thousands of white hats
in the chop of the storm,
or lying smooth and blue, the
loveliest bed in the world.
-Mary Oliver
The waves of the sea
Help me get back to me.
-Jill Davis
The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
-Jacques Cousteau

Thursday, August 5, 2010

God delights to increase the faith of His children.
-George Muller

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know
that sometimes nothing is better.
-Glenda Jackson

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy;
and therefore starved for meditiation and true friendship.
-C.S. Lewis
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
-John Wooden 

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

-Maya Angelou

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

It is a sublime thing to suffer and be stronger.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My business is to create.
-William Blake

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
-John Wooden

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Fear paralyzes; curiosity empowers. Be more interested than afraid.

-Patricia Alexander

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Everyone is broken by life - but afterward many are strong in the broken places.
-Ernest Hemingway

Friday, July 9, 2010

The respect of those you respect is worth more than the applause of the multitude.

-Arnold Glasow

Friday, July 2, 2010

The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
-Charles De Lint

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Forget injuries, never forget kindness.
-Confucius

 

I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand,
and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
-Bernard Berenson

Friday, June 25, 2010

"Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the
two most beautiful words in the English language."
-uttered by Henry James, and recorded by Edith Wharton

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.' 

-Mary Anne Radmacher
The more i think it over, the more i realize that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
-Vincent Van Gogh

Monday, June 21, 2010

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
-W.H. Auden

Friday, June 18, 2010

Never confuse motion with action.

-Benjamin Franklin

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

-Eleanor Hibbert

Saturday, June 12, 2010

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-Mother Teresa

Sunday, June 6, 2010

If God doesn't rule your mundane, He doesn't rule your life.
Because the mundane is where you live.
-Paul David Tripp

Friday, June 4, 2010

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
-Elizabeth Bibesco

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only.
Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas,
the way we live, what is happening.
–Coco Chanel

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Ah, summer,
what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
-Russell Baker

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.

-Emily Dickinson

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

-Charles A. Lindbergh

Monday, May 24, 2010

This life is not a state of being righteous, but rather a growth of righteousness; not a state of being healthy, but a period of healing; not a state of being, but becoming; not a state of rest, but of exercise and activity. We are not yet what we will be, but we grow toward it; the process is not yet finished, but is still going on; this life is not the end, it is a way to a better. All does not yet shine with glory; nevertheless, all is being purified.
-Martin Luther

Thursday, May 20, 2010

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
-John Cage
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
-André Gide

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
-Oscar Wilde

Monday, May 17, 2010

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is giving your gift away.
-David Viscott

Friday, May 14, 2010

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

-C.S. Lewis

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

-John Neal
Recognize that the joy of motherhood comes in moments.
-M. Russell Ballard

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

It is art that makes life. Makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of its process.
-Henry James
The way to know life is to love many things.
-Vincent Van Gogh 
The student of the compass is free to roam the open seas.
-Unknown

Monday, May 10, 2010

In this life we cannot do great things. Only small things with great love. 
-Mother Theresa

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

-Robert Browning

Saturday, May 8, 2010

O how gently and how lovingly dost thou lie awake in the depth and centre of my soul, where thou in secret and in silence alone, as its sole Lord, abidest, not only as in Thine own house or in Thine own chamber, but also as within my own bosom, in close and intimate union. 
-St. John of the Cross
We must free ourselves of the hope
that the sea will ever rest.
We must learn to sail in high winds.
-Aristotle Onassis



Tuesday, May 4, 2010

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

-Patricia Neal

Saturday, May 1, 2010

We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new world from nothing if nothing in our world could be salvaged, it was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.
-Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Thursday, April 29, 2010

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

-Margaret E. Sangster

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

-Herbert N. Casson

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Space reaches out from us and translates the world.
-Rilke
He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.
-William Blake
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a
butterfly in the winter woods.
-Edith Wharton
It always comes back to the same neccessity - go deep enough and there
is a bedrock of truth, however hard.
-May Sarton
Kiss me and you will see how important I am.
-Sylvia Plath
I am not interested in fiction. I want faithfulness.
-Anais Nin
Another world is not only possible, She is on her way. And on a quiet
day, if you really listen, you can hear her breathing.
-Arundhati Roy
Read me the bit / again about the thing / that is pure ... / read that
bit, the thing / we cannot turn our eyes to, / you begin it.
-John Holloway
The work of the poet is to name what is holy.
-Diane Ackerman
O I am sincerely / Plumb crazy About your every thought and yearning...
-Hafiz
One must have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.
-Nietzsche
There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors
are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever
again.
-Elizabeth Lawrence
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it
produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and
spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The
rest is literature.
-Jean Cocteau
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The
world would split open.
-Kathe Kollwitz
For Lucid dreamers nothing is impossible.
-S. Laberge
Learn to dream, gentleman.
-Friedrich Kekode
Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.
-Archibald Macleish
Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.
-Alice Walker
The appearance of things change according to the emotions, and thus we
see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in
ourselves.
-Kahil Gibran
Sell your cleverness; buy bewilderment.
-Rumi
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something
sensational to read in the train.
-Oscar Wilde
Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.
-Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic
door and a lost kingdom of peace.
-Eugene O'Neill
Courage lies not in the heat of pursuit. But in the moments spent
silent. Deep in wait.
-Munna
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like
mine. I have been eating poetry.
-Meryl Pataky
What are the earth and it's interests beside the deep surmise which
pierces and scatters them?
-Maurizzio Pellegrin
A sacred burden is this life ye bear: Look on it, lift it, bear it
solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly.
-Marianne Lettierre

Monday, April 26, 2010

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy,
and dividing our grief.
-Joseph Addison

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon
as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with
too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

-H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Oh I wish
I could sometimes
hear the silence
a little
louder.
-Annemie Eeckhout

Monday, April 12, 2010

Life is not merely being alive, but being well.

-Martial

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. 

It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. 

We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' 

Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.

-Maryanne Williamson
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
-Brendan Behan
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. 
-Erich Fromme
Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. 
-Ludwig van Beethoven
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion. 
-Samuel Johnson

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

And he departed from our sight
that we might return to our heart,
and there find Him.
For He departed, and behold,
He is here.
-St. Augustine

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
-Jim Rohn

Saturday, April 3, 2010

That's the real trouble with the world,
Too many people grow up.
They forget.
They don't remember what it's like
To be ten years old.
-Walt Disney
Grey skies are just clouds passing over.
-Duke Ellington
Just because something doesn't do
What you planned it to do
Doesn't mean it's useless.
-Thomas Edison
If i could put fear and doubt aside, what would i really want to do
with this one precious life?
-Mary Oliver
Surviving is important, but thriving is elegant.
-Maya Angelou
We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up
a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to
balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...
not looking for flaws, but for potential.
-Ellen Goodman
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
-Laura Ingalls Wilder
Do not spoil what you have
By desiring what you have not;
But remember that what you now have
Was once among things only hoped for.
-Epicurus
Memory is a man's real possession.
In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
-Alexander Smith
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We
have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting
like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.
-Marie Beyon Ray

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Who, being loved, is poor?
-Oscar Wilde

Monday, March 29, 2010

My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should.

-Friedrich von Schiller

Sunday, March 28, 2010

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy;
they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
-Marcel Proust
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-John Donne 

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success.
When you do a thing, do it with all your might.
Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality.
Be active, be energetic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stop and stare?

-W.H. Davies

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Letters are among the most significant memorial
a person can leave behind them.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Monday, March 15, 2010

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

-Arnold Bennett

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
-Mae West
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way."
-Pablo Neruda

Monday, March 8, 2010

If you want to be happy, be.
-Leo Tolstoy

Friday, March 5, 2010

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is
exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only
different kinds of good weather.
-John Ruskin

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

The real things haven't changed.
It is still best to be honest and truthful;
to make the most of what we have;
to be happy with simple pleasures;
and have courage when things go wrong.
-Laura Ingalls Wilder
Happiness...not in another place but this place,
not for another hour, but this hour.
-Walt Whitman
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor
and attended to with diligence.
-Abigail Adams
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-Paul Boese
Every day is a journey,
and the journey itself is home.
–Matsuo Basho
It was one of those March days when
the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold:
when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
-Charles Dickens
I have held many things in my hands,
and I have lost them all;
but whatever I have placed in God's hands,
that I still possess.
-Martin Luther

Monday, March 1, 2010

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are
adding up their troubles.
– William Penn
Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song;
But the man worthwhile is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Food is not about impressing people.  It is about making them feel comfortable.
-Ina Garten

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world,
I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside 
them they've got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. 
Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.
-Neil Gaiman
I want every room to feel like I'm traveling to a new place.
-Jeff Klein
The more hues there are, the more life there is.
-Rose Anne de Pampelonne
I need contrast - the old and the new, the rough and the soft.
The clash of it all is very sexy.
-Catherine MaLandrino
In the most successful spaces you don't see everything at once. 
The more time you spend in them, the more you discover.
They open up like flowers.
-Vincente Wolf
Kitchens should be designed around what's important - fun, food & life.
-Daniel Boulud
No matter how much space you have, people always want to be in the kitchen.
-Keith Johnson
I don't know if less is more or more is less.
-David Gill
Minimalist rooms can be so beautiful, but I can't live in one - I love objects too much.
-Bunny Williams

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

-Rosalia de Castro
I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you,
and that you will work them, water them
with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom,
till you yourself burst into bloom.
-Clarissa Pinkola Estes

As long as we are persistent...
we will continue to grow.
We cannot choose the day or time
when we will fully bloom.
It happens in its own time.
-Denis Waitley
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we're never, ever the same. 
-Flavia
"les petits riens de la vie "
-it means, the little nothings of life

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start,
When memory plays an old tune on the heart.
-Eliza Cook

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better."
-William Shakespeare,
Who so loves believes the impossible.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.
-Mairead Corrigan
I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness.
-Mother Teresa
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.
-Raymond Carver
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The
world would split open.
-Muriel Rukeyser
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a
month's study of books.
-Chinese proverb
A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color.
-William Bolitho

Saturday, February 6, 2010

I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.
-Isaac Mizrahi
Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile initially scared me to death.
-Betty Bender
To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.
-Minna Antrim
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
-Thomas Merton
Old houses are alive.
All you have to do is pick up the threads and go with it.
-Pierre Passebon
Friendship is the great chain of human society.
-James Howell
Waste your money and you're only out of money but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.
-Michael Leboeuf
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.
-Edith Sitwell
Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.
-Karle Wilson Baker
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
-Hal Borland
A man should look as if he has bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care, and then forgotten all about them.
-Hardy Amies
...his soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
-James Joyce, from The Dead
Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that i existed: I was here.
I was hungry. I was defeated. I was happy. I was sad. I was in love.
I was afraid. I was hopeful.
-Felix Gonzalez Torres
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, 
any one can start from now and make a brand new ending.
-Anonymous
Indeed there are times when the only way the path can be followed is on one's knees.
-Niel A. Maxwel

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
-Mark Twain
Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, 
perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.
-Judith Thurman
The mission of art is to bring out the unfamiliar from the most familiar.
-Kahlil Gibran
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire,
and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith
bright, intact and strong.
-James E. Faust
I don't want to be an old man and look back and realize I never found a reason to be alive.
-Princeton, Avenue Q
If the divine creator has taken pain to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat,
the least we could do is to prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.
-Fernand Point
Confession begins in sorrow, but ends in joy.
-Richard Foster
I've got a head full of stories I can't tell...
-Lisa Miskovsky
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
-Mark Twain

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
-Henry David Thoreau
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
-Albert Einstein
Stop seeking to classify and to judge every moment, and you'll start seeing each moment's unique treasure.
-Ralph Marston

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

"I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things…I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind." 
– Leo F. Buscaglia
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
-Condorcet
The moment you're in is plenty. The place where you are is an ideal place from which to move forward.
-Ralph Marston
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
-Dorothy Parker
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
-Thomas Carlyle
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
-Sydney J. Harris
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
Employ thy time well if thou meanest to gain leisure.
-Benjamin Franklin

"Many people lose confidence in prayer because they don't understand the answers that they receive. We ask for strength and God sends us the difficulties which make us strong. We pray for wisdom and God sends us problems, the solutions of which develop wisdom. We plead for courage and God gives us danger to overcome. We ask for favors and God gives us opportunities." 

-Elder Sterling W. Sill

The unexamined life is not worth living.
-Plato

Monday, January 25, 2010

While we are postponing, life speeds by.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
-Joseph Roux
The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is.
-Mary Pettibone Poole
I quote others only in order to better express myself.
-Michel de Montaigne
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
I pick my favorite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
-Robert Burns
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
-Winston Churchill
A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
-Talmud

Thursday, January 21, 2010

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
-Marlene Dietrich
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.
-Isaac D'Israeli

Saturday, January 16, 2010


The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
ralph waldo emerson

the inspiration:


It is no secret that I love the 26 humble letters that make up our alphabet.

I love the sounds they make on the tongue,
the curve of their shape in my own handwriting,
the words they make in perfect combinations
and the sentences, paragraphs, poems, books and thoughts they have inspired throughout generations.

I invite you to follow me as I gain inspiration from those who have said it best and, in turn, share it with you.

These are the quotes that I think are worth repeating.
 

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