May 2011
13 posts
I have, let’s say, sixty years to live. Most of that time will be spent working....
– The Fountainhead
Nothing on this Earth Can Hold Art a Prisoner. Because it’s something inside you...
– theonlymagicleftisart.tumblr.com
April 2011
9 posts
Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.
– J.K. Rowling
None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.
– Anne Rice
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the...
– Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
March 2011
1 post
Some Nice Thoughts
Standing for what you believe in regardless of the odds against you, and the pressure that tears at your resistance
…is Courage. Keeping a smile on your face when inside you feel like dying, for the sake of supporting others …is Strength. Stopping at nothing and doing what’s in your heart that you know is right …is Determination. Doing more than is expected, to make another’s life a little more...
February 2011
12 posts
For me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all...
– Russell Brand
“Hold me a little longer butterfly. Keep me till winter’s end. You are fragile in hughes of frozen blue. I want your affection. I want your wings. Stay a little bit longer under the shoreline. This sense of wonder and awe does permeate the new skin you have grown, golden in the purple plains. Textures of wildflowers unearth themselves upon your arms. I believed you to be weak, but you have...
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps...
– Ayn Rand
“Some of us give up on life with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little then lose hope. Sitll others—and I am one of those—never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It’s not a question of courage. It’s something constitutional, an inability to let go. It may be nothing more...
The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love and be loved in return.
– Nat King Cole - Nature Boy
Life is full of contradictions, every inch a mile. At the moment we start...
– “Happy/Sad” from Andrew Lippa’s The Addams Family Musical
January 2011
1 post
December 2010
37 posts
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you...
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Our right to be different is, in a deep sense, the most precious right we human...
– Lillian Smith
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are...
–
Marianne Williamson
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you’re feeling frightened about what comes next… Don’t. Embrace the uncertainty. Allow it to lead you places. Be brave as it challenges you to exercise both your heart and your mind as you create your own path towards happiness. Don’t waste time with regret. Spin wildly into your next action. Enjoy the present - each moment as it comes - because you’ll never get another one quite like it....