A woman's face..

It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it. ~Claudette Colbert, quoted in Kindling the Spirit by Lois P. Frankel

Yet to be....

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. ~Gloria Steinem

Difficult Task...

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. ~Joseph Conrad

Because I am a woman....

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes." ~Clare Boothe Luce

Laugh..

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. ~Norm Papernick

Life Lived...

I am beautiful as I am. I am the shape that was gifted. My hips are wider than that of a fashion model's. For this I am glad, for these are the signs of a life lived. ~Cindy Olsen, co-owner of The Body Objective

Just Take it...

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ~Roseanne Barr

Brain..Heart..Gut...

Brain..Heart..Gut...All this and more....!!

Very Young..

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination. ~Sam Levenson

Geniuses..

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Places...

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you - you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences - like rags and shreds of your very life. ~Katherine Mansfield

Keeping Happy...

All a manager has to do is keep eleven players happy - the eleven in the reserves. The first team are happy because they are in the first team. ~Rodney Marsh, 1979

When the Sky Smiled..

When the Sky Smiled on Dec 1st 2008...this is how it looked....

Blues...

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. ~Ancient Persian Saying

Calm center..

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person. ~Norman Vincent Peale

Beauty in Us..!!

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life begins...

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins. ~Bob Moawad

I like to think...

I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree. ~James Douglas

Apology...

Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck

Illustration Friday (Balloon) : Do not break...!!

Do not break..it hurts..!!

Hard to find..

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

Greeting..

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! ~John Muir

Attitudes..

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

Do it..!!

If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Enough Happiness..

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky

If I make the lashes dark...

If I make the lashes dark
And the eyes more bright
And the lips more scarlet,
Or ask if all be right
From mirror after mirror,
No vanity's displayed:
I'm looking for the face I had
Before the world was made.
~W.B. Yeats

Hide...

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. ~Eric Hoffer, Passionate State of Mind, 1955

Fear..!!

"I must not fear. Fear is the mindkiller. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." ~Frank Herbert, Dune

Cheers...!!

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ~Mark Twain

No tomorrow..

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Nature hides..

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Creation..

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Linking...

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Calm..

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ~Mark Overby

Secret..

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. ~Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

Good and beautiful...

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. ~Ninon de L'Enclos

Wondering..

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane

Broken Heart..

When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal. ~Author Unknown

Prayer...

Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. ~Samuel M. Shoemaker

Growing Up...

You can tell a child is growing up when he stops asking where he came from and starts refusing to tell where he is going. ~Author Unknown

A daughter...

A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future. ~Author Unknown

Confidence...

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. ~Peter T. Mcintyre

Shy presences..

It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ~James Douglas, Down Shoe Lane

Empty Bottle...

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. ~Charles Simic

Imperfection...

I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being. ~Anatole France (Jacques Anatole François Thibault), The Garden of Epicurus, 1894

Together...

Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. ~Author Unknown

Our minds..

Our minds are lazier than our bodies. ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678

Teamwork....

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. ~H.E. Luccock

As he is...

The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is. ~Alfred Tonnelle

Personal Diary...

Art is your personal diary where you may color your thoughts and emotions on a page. ~Sara, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999