Your Own Artist

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you are doing.

If you are not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.

~ Aretha Franklin ~

A Prisoner

I fell in love with my country

when I was a prisoner in someone else's.

~ John McCain ~

Risks

If no one ever took risks,

Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

~ Neil Simon ~

R.I. P.

Putting It Off

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard,

and putting off a hard one makes it impossible.

~ George H. Lorimer ~

Our Differences

But we should be mindful as we argue about our differences

that so much more unites than divides us.

We should also note that our differences,

when compared with those in many,

if not most, other countries,

are smaller than we sometimes imagine them to be.

~ John McCain ~

R.I.P.

Time

Time flies: but remember

 you are the navigator.

Fly Away

When wings are grown,

birds and children fly away.

~ Chinese Proverb ~

Good Laughs

We are all here for a spell;

get all the good laughs you can.

~ Will Rogers ~

Music

Music does a lot of things for a lot of people.

It's transporting, for sure.

It can take you right back, years back,

to the very moment certain things happened in your life.

It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.

~ Aretha Franklin ~

R.I.P.

See the Good Points

It is healthier to see the good points of others

than to analyze our own bad ones.

~ Francoise Sagan ~

No More Blame

You can no more blame your circumstance for your character

than you can the mirror for your looks.

Act

Act the way you'd like to be

 and soon you'll be the way you act.

~ Dr. George W. Crane ~

Compliments

Compliments cost nothing, yet there

are those around us who would do

anything to be praised for something.

Compassion

If you want others to be happy,

practice compassion.  If you want

to be happy, practice compassion.

~ Dalai Lama ~

It's Sad

It's sad when someone you know

becomes someone you knew.

~ Henry Rollins ~

Dear Old Friends

Remember that the most valuable antiques

are dear old friends.

~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~

Getting Older

The good part about getting older is 

you stop trying to prove anything to anyone,

including yourself.  All you are in the pursuit of 

is collecting experiences - beautiful, fragile little soap bubbles

that you store in your heart, and every once in a while

you pull one out and gaze at the delicate pictures it shows you.

~ Twinkle Khanna ~

Two Great Days

There are two great days in a person's life -

the day we are born and the day we discover why.

~ William Barclay ~

Worrying

When you begin to worry, go find something to do.

Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful.

Talking about your problem or sitting alone,

thinking about it, does no good;

 it serves only to make you miserable.

Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless.

Worrying will not solve your problem.

~ Joyce Meyer ~

Remember Your Dreams

Remember your dreams and fight for them.

You must know what you want from life.

There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible:

the fear of failure.

~ Paulo Coelho ~

Negative People

Stay away from negative people.

They have a problem for every solution.

~ Albert Einstein ~

Your Smile

Your smile will give you a positive countenance

that will make people feel comfortable around you.

~ Les Brown ~