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

Sweetness...

Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not! ~Author Unknown

My Garden..

My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. ~Abram L. Urban

Delicate...

Delicate balance between perfection and beauty.

Rain...

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. ~Langston Hughes

Existence..

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. ~John Berger, The Sense of Sight, 1980

Growing older....

As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do. ~Zachary Scott

Greens..

The naked earth is warm with Spring, And with green grass and bursting trees,Leans to the sun's kiss glorying, And quivers in the sunny breeze.~Julian Grenfell

Faith...

Faith can move mountains, but don't be surprised if God hands you a shovel. ~Author Unknown

Wild Cherry..

My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms - will it return to my body when they scatter? ~Kotomichi

Weeping...!!

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. ~Kahlil Gibran

Whats in a Name...???

Judging Others..

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions. ~Ian Percy

Dressed fine...!!

The tulip and the butterfly..Appear in gayer coats than I:Let me be dressed fine as I will,Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.~Isaac Watts

Creativity and Art...!!

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ~Scott Adams

Emotions....

Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body. ~Irene Claremont de Castillejo

Soul....!!

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. ~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Chakra of Life....!!!

God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled. ~Author Unknown

Never lose your beauty...!!

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. ~Martin Buxbaum

Artist...!!

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ~Henry Ward Beecher

Painting........

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. ~Leonardo da Vinci

Weed...!

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. ~Doug Larson

Wonderful life...

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. ~Colette

Sweetest things...

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. ~Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858

The shadow...

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. ~Maori Proverb

Black or White.....!!!!!

I am still the same....!!

16 and 60..!!

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. ~Marie Stopes.

Smile..!!

Always remember to be happy because you never know who's falling in love with your smile. ~Author Unknown

Under the sun..!

I will be the gladdest thing,Under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers..And not pick one.~Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Afternoon on a Hill"