May 14, 2012
“Follow your bliss.” ~Joseph Campbell
May 9, 2012
“If you can dream it, you can make it so.” ~Belva Davis
April 27, 2012
“There is little success where there is little laughter.” ~Andrew Carnegie
April 19, 2012
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” ~Albert Einstein
April 3, 2012
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” ~Mahatma Gandhi
March 17, 2012
“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.” ~Jane Austen
February 27, 2012
“We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.” ~Agnes Repplier
February 21, 2012
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
February 16, 2012
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” ~Mother Teresa
February 10, 2012
”In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.” ~Deepak Chopra
February 6, 2012
“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” ~Margaret Lee Runbeck
January 29, 2012
“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.” ~Willa Cather
January 23, 2012
“Can you hear me? Wherever you are, look up. The clouds are lifting. The sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming into a new world, a kinder world, where men will rise above their hate, their greed and brutality. Look up. The soul of man has been given wings, and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow – into the light of hope, into the future, the glorious future that belongs to you, to me, and to all of us. Look up. Look up.” ~Charlie Chaplin
January 16, 2012
“Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you – not because they are nice, but because you are.” ~Unknown
January 14, 2012
“A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.” ~Elsa Schiaparelli
January 10, 2012
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” ~Leo Tolstoy
December 27, 2011
“Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.” ~John Heywood
December 21, 2011
“Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.” ~Francis C. Farley
December 17, 2011
“Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can’t be exactly who you are.” ~Lady Gaga
December 11, 2011
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” ~Hamilton Wright Mabie
December 6, 2011
“In the end these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you learn to let go?”
~Jack Kornfield
November 29, 2011
“Traveling makes one modest – you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ~Gustave Flaubert
November 20, 2011
“You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.” ~Sarah Ban Breathnach
November 18, 2011
Looking forward to Thanksgiving week. Love this quote: “How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child’s personality. A child is resentful, negative—or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people.” ~Sir John Templeton
November 17, 2011
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
November 15, 2011
“Many people think that patience is a sign of weakness. I think this is a mistake. It is anger that is a sign of weakness, whereas patience is a sign of strength.” ~Dalai Lama
November 10, 2011
“Don’t give into your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.” ~Paulo Coelho
November 3, 2011
“The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken. Bon appétit.” ~Julia Child
October 28, 2011
“Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.” ~Christina Baldwin
October 26, 2011
“When people show you who they are, believe them. When you see it, believe it!” ~Oprah Winfrey
October 19, 2011
“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.” ~Booker T. Washington
October 14, 2011
“As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.” ~Joan Gussow
October 6, 2011
“Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” ~F.P. Jones
October 5, 2011
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” -Steve Jobs
September 30, 2011
“If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.” ~Fay Weldon
September 22, 2011
“Forgiveness is the scent of the violet that clings to the heel that crushed it” ~Mark Twain
(Thanks to my Granny for sharing!)
September 15, 2011
“The thing that’s important to know is that you never know. You’re always sort of feeling your way.” ~Diane Arbus
September 8, 2011
“The magic is inside you. There ain’t no crystal ball.” ~Dolly Parton
September 6, 2011
”Life is not equally kind to us all…remember to treat everyone with respect and equality and God will always bless you.” -Muhammad Ali
September 4, 2011
”Keep a green tree in your heart, perhaps a songbird will come.” -Chinese Proverb
August 31, 2011
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ~Maya Angelou
August 25, 2011
“I’ve learned only that you never say never.” ~Marina von Neumann Whitman
August 19, 2011
“I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.” ~Mary Oliver
August 13, 2011
“All I had was my ability to draw… but because it was all I had I began to make it my whole life.” ~Norman Rockwell
August 3, 2011
“Rice is born in water and must die in wine.” ~Italian Proverb
July 31, 2011
“Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same.” ~John Denver
July 25, 2011
“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.” ~George Bernard Shaw
July 20, 2011
”I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.” ~ Dr. Seuss
July 17, 2011
“Donuts. Is there anything they can’t do?” ~Homer Simpson
July 9, 2011
“Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” ~Roald Dahl
July 1, 2011
“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” ~Shirley MacLaine
June 26, 2011
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” ~Mark Twain
June 22, 2011
“Bring a novel to read on the plane to protect yourself against chatty strangers.” ~Anne Tyler …Wonderful travel advice 
June 18, 2011
“Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life!” ~Albert Einstein
June 16, 2011
”It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” ~e.e. cummings
June 11, 2011
“Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.” ~Benjamin Franklin
June 6, 2011
“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.” ~Janis Joplin
May 30, 2011
”Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend.” -Sarah Ban Breathnach
May 29, 2011
“Deep down in the human spirit there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.” -Pema Chodron
May 28, 2011
“Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.” ~Louis D. Brandeis (Happy Memorial Day weekend everyone!)
May 27, 2011
“I would rather be judged by 12 farmers than 12 scholars.” ~Thomas Jefferson
May 25, 2011
”Learning to understand our dreams is a matter of learning to understand our heart’s language.” ~Ann Faraday
May 24, 2011
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.” ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
May 22, 2011
”Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life’s most civilized pleasures.” -Michael Broadbent
May 20, 2011
”Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.” ~Jim Davis
May 18, 2011
“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” ~Robert Louis Stevenson
May 13, 2011
”All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” -Charles M. Schulz
May 11, 2011
”To realize your true nature, you must wait for the right moment and the right conditions. When the time comes, you are awakened as if from a dream. You understand that what you have found is your own and doesn’t come from anywhere outside.” -Buddhist Sutra
May 10, 2011
“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.” -John Leonard
May 8, 2011
“We are walking trees and floating plants made of grist from the mills of God.” – John Burroughs, Naturalist
May 4, 2011
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” -Plato
May 4, 2011
”May happiness surround each of us as we remember that we are all one family in Earth’s precious garden.” -Gullikson
April 27, 2011
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ~Marcel Proust
April 26, 2011
If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.” ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
April 12, 2011
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ~ Howard Thurman
March 29, 2011
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” ~Anaïs Nin
February 25, 2011
“Gardening requires lots of water – most of it in the form of perspiration.” ~Lou Erickson
February 12, 2011
“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.” ~Voltaire