Inspiration For Your Day

Nature

2012-02-15T17:30:00.001-05:00

"Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we." ~ Michel de Montaigne, translated

Part of the Whole

2012-02-14T14:51:00.000-05:00

"A human being is part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." ~ Albert Einstein, 1950

Good Planets

2012-02-13T21:26:00.001-05:00

"Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find." ~ Quoted in Time

Both Contribute

2012-02-10T11:16:00.003-05:00

"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute." ~ Gil Stern

The Foundation

2012-02-09T15:20:00.003-05:00

"Optimism is the foundation of courage." ~ Nicholas Murray Butler

In the Long Run

2012-02-08T11:35:00.000-05:00

"In the long run, the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip." ~ Daniel L. Reardon

Blood Type

2012-02-07T11:52:00.001-05:00

"A pessimist's blood type is always B-negative." ~ Author Unknown

Pessimist, Philosopher and Optimist

2012-02-06T10:47:00.000-05:00

"A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them." ~ Leonard Louis Levinson

An Art

2012-02-03T15:40:00.002-05:00

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." ~ Don Marquis

Forever or Not At All

2012-02-02T19:07:00.002-05:00

"Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all." ~ Mignon McLaughlin

Begin

2012-02-01T15:06:00.004-05:00

"The best way to get something done is to begin." ~ Author Unknown

An Easy Job

2012-01-31T09:28:00.002-05:00

"If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it." ~ Olin Miller

A Thief

2012-01-30T11:51:00.001-05:00

"Procrastination is the thief of time." ~ Edward Young

Fury

2012-01-27T09:46:00.004-05:00

"Beware the fury of a patient man." ~ John Dryden

A Qualification for Business

2012-01-26T15:13:00.002-05:00

"Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request." ~ Lord Chesterfield

A Magical Effect

2012-01-25T12:07:00.003-05:00

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." ~ John Quincy Adams

Admiration and Scorn

2012-01-24T09:04:00.002-05:00

"Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead." ~ Mac McCleary

A Form of Action

2012-01-23T15:42:00.002-05:00

"Patience is also a form of action." ~ Auguste Rodin

One Kind Word

2012-01-20T10:02:00.003-05:00

"One kind word can warm three winter months." ~ Japanese Proverb

A Time For Home

2012-01-19T14:57:00.003-05:00

"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

Warm House

2012-01-18T15:56:00.003-05:00

"Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat." ~ Author Unknown

Imagination

2012-01-17T19:13:00.000-05:00

"The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination." ~ Terri Guillemets

Obstacles

2012-01-13T12:49:00.000-05:00

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." ~Henry Ford

Long Range Goals

2012-01-12T19:31:00.001-05:00

"You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures." ~ Charles C. Noble

Not a Concern of the Mind

2012-01-11T11:35:00.000-05:00

"The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A New Ending

2012-01-10T14:26:00.002-05:00

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." ~ Author Unknown

Goals and Thoughts

2012-01-09T09:27:00.004-05:00

"Goals determine your thoughts. Thoughts determine your life." ~ Anonymous

One Resolution

2012-01-06T17:03:00.000-05:00

"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things." ~ John Burroughs

Cheers!

2012-01-05T11:56:00.001-05:00

"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right." ~ Oprah Winfrey

2012-01-04T12:13:00.000-05:00

"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

Beginnings

2012-01-03T11:16:00.000-05:00

For last year's words belong to last year's language

And next year's words await another voice.

And to make an end is to make a beginning.

~T.S. Eliot

New Year's Eve

2012-01-02T11:55:00.000-05:00

"New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights." ~ Hamilton Wright Mabie

Christmas Doesn't Come From a Store

2011-12-30T16:05:00.000-05:00

"And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more." ~ Dr. Seuss

The Message

2011-12-29T16:49:00.000-05:00

I am still in the Christmas Spirit here and have just painted this little holiday hummingbird today. The Christmas Day post on my web log was my 500th post on this blog! To celebrate, I am having an original watercolor painting giveaway! To be eligible to win this one of a kind, 5" x 7" double matted painting, you have to leave a comment on my web log post and tell me why you would like to win this piece. If you subscribe to that blog, or are already a follower, with your comment you get an extra two entries into the drawing, making it a total of three! The drawing will be held at 3pm, EST on January 6th, Little Christmas, the traditional end of the Christmas Season. This contest is open to all residents of the USA and Canada. The winner will be notified here on my blog and by email. I will mail the painting as soon as I have the winner's shipping address. Thanks to everyone who reads my posts and adds their thoughts and comments! Please tell your friends about this drawing and good Luck to you all!!

Christmas Past

2011-12-28T16:57:00.000-05:00

"When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness." ~ Bob Hope

Become a Child

2011-12-27T13:03:00.000-05:00

Happy Holidays!

2011-12-26T15:14:00.000-05:00

"Christmas - that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved." ~ Augusta E. Rundel

A Day Of Tradition

2011-12-23T15:56:00.000-05:00

"Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends." ~ Margaret Thatcher

Warmest Wishes to You and Yours,

Sandy

Opening Hearts

2011-12-22T10:03:00.001-05:00

"Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts." ~ Janice Maeditere

Gifts

2011-12-21T16:36:00.000-05:00

"Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas." ~ Peg Bracken

Religous Views

2011-12-20T10:20:00.002-05:00

"People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them." ~ Dave Barry

What are the Odds?

2011-12-19T16:53:00.001-05:00

"The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one." ~ Erma Bombeck

Seeing

2011-12-16T08:36:00.000-05:00

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time." ~ Betty Smith

Keep Moving

2011-12-15T07:31:00.002-05:00

"Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving." ~ Albert Einstein

All Good Things

2011-12-14T10:23:00.000-05:00

"Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours." ~ Swedish Proverb

Make Others Happy

2011-12-13T11:45:00.002-05:00

"Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it." ~ Author Unknown

What Saves A Man

2011-12-12T16:11:00.002-05:00

"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Know Where You Are Going

2011-12-09T16:37:00.002-05:00

"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else." ~ Lawrence J. Peter

Knowing What You Want

2011-12-08T08:44:00.000-05:00

"One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it." ~ Sidney Howard

The Spirit

2011-12-07T08:03:00.000-05:00

"The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

So Much or So Little

2011-12-06T08:14:00.002-05:00

"When people say to me: "How do you do so many things?" I often answer them, without meaning to be cruel: "How do you do so little?" It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the TV and treat life as if it goes on forever." ~ Philip Adams

Peace

2011-12-02T09:28:00.000-05:00

"Let us love the world to peace." ~ Eileen Elias

The Feeling

2011-12-01T09:42:00.000-05:00

"The question of world peace, the question of family peace, the question of peace between wife and husband, or peace between parents and children, everything is dependent on that feeling of love and warmheartedness." ~ Dalai Lama

Give Away

2011-11-30T06:15:00.000-05:00

"Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away." ~ Robert Fulghum

Where?

2011-11-29T21:00:00.002-05:00

"If you don't have peace at home, then where will you have it?"~ Jeff Davidson

The Forest

2011-11-28T07:31:00.000-05:00

"To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows." ~ John F. Carlson

Thank you!

2011-11-24T10:58:00.000-05:00

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice." ~ Meister Eckhart

Blessings

2011-11-23T09:04:00.000-05:00

"Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel." ~ Author Unknown

A Naughty World

2011-11-22T11:45:00.000-05:00

"How far that little candle throws his beams!  So shines a good deed in a naughty world."  ~ William Shakespeare

Our Treasures

2011-11-21T12:31:00.002-05:00

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." ~ Thornton Wilder

Thanks

2011-11-18T17:44:00.000-05:00

"He loses his thanks who promises and delays." ~ Proverb

Our Hopes

2011-11-17T09:32:00.000-05:00

"We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears." ~ Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld

Non-Performance

2011-11-16T14:10:00.002-05:00

"Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies." ~ Benjamin Franklin

A Debt

2011-11-15T15:32:00.002-05:00

"A promise made is a debt unpaid." ~ Robert Service

Performance

2011-11-14T10:02:00.000-05:00

"An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise." ~ William Dean Howells

Like A Full Moon

2011-11-11T09:10:00.000-05:00

"Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day." ~ German Proverb

Polititions

2011-11-10T20:16:00.000-05:00

"A politician is known by the promises he keeps." ~ Author Unknown

Crying Babies

2011-11-09T10:32:00.000-05:00

"Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once." ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Delays

2011-11-08T10:58:00.002-05:00

"He loses his thanks who promises and delays." ~ Proverb

Hard To Deliver

2011-11-07T10:07:00.002-05:00

"Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver." ~ Author Unknown

All Your Heart

2011-11-04T16:25:00.000-04:00

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." ~ Confucius

Originality

2011-11-03T09:59:00.000-04:00

"Originality is... a by-product of sincerity." ~ Marianne Moore

One Life

2011-11-02T13:41:00.002-04:00

"There is just one life for each of us: our own." ~ Euripides

Be Who You Are

2011-11-01T11:08:00.000-04:00

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." ~ Dr. Seuss

Can't Suit Them All

2011-10-31T11:47:00.000-04:00

"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away." ~ Raymond Hull

Twitter

2011-10-28T12:19:00.002-04:00

"Using Twitter like a dandelion uses the wind... Spreading messages, not exactly knowing where they might go, some taking roots and blossoming, some making a adventurous journey through the air but not falling on fertile ground. So what? A process of beauty and joy." ~ Detlef Cordes

Borders

2011-10-27T13:11:00.000-04:00

"National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway." ~ Tim Mayrdes

Computer Technology

2011-10-25T08:10:00.002-04:00

"Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life." ~ Bill Clinton

A Blog

2011-10-24T18:18:00.002-04:00

"A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership." ~ Robert Brault

Look Big

2011-10-21T23:10:00.002-04:00

"If you have a web site, it makes your small business look big." ~ Natalie Sequera

Needle In A Haystack

2011-10-20T08:02:00.002-04:00

"One of the Internet's strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data." ~ Jared Sandberg

Communication

2011-10-19T09:38:00.000-04:00

"Internet: absolute communication, absolute isolation." ~ Paul Carvel

The Internet

2011-10-18T12:35:00.003-04:00

"The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life." ~ Andrew Brown

Firse Rate

2011-10-17T14:56:00.000-04:00

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." ~ Judy Garland

Milk

2011-10-14T16:27:00.002-04:00

"He who wants milk should not sit himself in the middle of a pasture waiting for a cow to back up to him." ~ Unknown

Aspirations

2011-10-13T10:47:00.000-04:00

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." ~ Louisa May Alcott

Wanting More

2011-10-12T09:37:00.002-04:00

"Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more." ~ Carole King

Money

2011-10-11T12:59:00.000-04:00

"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one." ~ Benjamin Franklin

Art Springs From Desire

2011-10-10T14:29:00.000-04:00

"My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there." ~ Carl Andre

It's Contagious

2011-10-07T17:20:00.000-04:00

"Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?" ~ Dennis and Wendy Mannering

Look At Everything

2011-10-06T06:04:00.002-04:00

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time." ~ Betty Smith

Don't Know Attutude

2011-10-05T08:40:00.000-04:00

"I value a "don't know" attitude highly, because it's ambiguous, and fosters a "beginner's mind" in which there are more possibilities than "expert's mind." ~ Theresa Bayer

Making A Difference

2011-10-04T12:56:00.000-04:00

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." ~ William James

Love What You Do

2011-10-03T11:14:00.002-04:00

"Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you'd better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day. While life is not always fair, it is manageable. It is a matter of attitude and confidence." ~ Mario Andretti

Control

2011-09-30T19:27:00.000-04:00

"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force." ~ Irving Berlin

Negative Thinking

2011-09-29T17:29:00.002-04:00

"Negative thinking destroys your brain cells and causes global warming. Source: The Scientific Institute of GetOverIt!" ~ Dodinsky

A Certain Set

2011-09-28T11:29:00.000-04:00

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes." ~ Hugh Downs

Misery

2011-09-27T12:22:00.002-04:00

"Misery is a communicable disease." ~ Martha Graham

Excellence

2011-09-26T14:01:00.002-04:00

"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude." ~ Ralph Marston

A Quote to Remember

2011-09-23T17:19:00.002-04:00

A good quote for me to remember today - "A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely." ~ Roald Dahl

*Inspiration For Your Day*

Nature

Part of the Whole

Good Planets

Both Contribute

The Foundation

In the Long Run

Blood Type

Pessimist, Philosopher and Optimist

An Art

Forever or Not At All

Begin

An Easy Job

A Thief

Fury

A Qualification for Business

A Magical Effect

Admiration and Scorn

A Form of Action

One Kind Word

A Time For Home

Warm House

Imagination

Obstacles

Long Range Goals

Not a Concern of the Mind

A New Ending

Goals and Thoughts

One Resolution

Cheers!

Beginnings

New Year's Eve

Christmas Doesn't Come From a Store

The Message

Christmas Past

Become a Child

Happy Holidays!

A Day Of Tradition

Opening Hearts

Gifts

Religous Views

What are the Odds?

Seeing

Keep Moving

All Good Things

Make Others Happy

What Saves A Man

Know Where You Are Going

Knowing What You Want

The Spirit

So Much or So Little

Peace

The Feeling

Give Away

Where?

The Forest

Thank you!

Blessings

A Naughty World

Our Treasures

Thanks

Our Hopes

Non-Performance

A Debt

Performance

Like A Full Moon

Polititions

Crying Babies

Delays

Hard To Deliver

All Your Heart

Originality

One Life

Be Who You Are

Can't Suit Them All

Twitter

Borders

Computer Technology

A Blog

Look Big

Inspiration For Your Day