Your Mirror

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world; everyone you meet is your mirror.

Ken Keyes, Jr.

Dirty Feet

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love Life

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Arthur Rubinstein

Positivity

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.

Elbert Hubbard

Inspiration

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

Jack London

If you just aren't inspired today, perhaps it's time to pick yourself up and pursue it!

Go outside and look at a leaf, a snowflake, a mountain in the distance, a truck rumbling by, the smell of a fireplace. What makes it special? What story is connected to it? How would you incorporate it into your next piece of art? What music would you connect to it?

Find your inspiration in the things that surround you -- go after it, don't wait for it to come to you...

True Happiness

"True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents."

John W. Gardner

Monday...

"The dog doesn't know the difference between Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so I have to walk the dog early those days too."

Donna Shalala

Opinion

" A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion."

The Bible - Proverbs 18 : 2

Reveal the Inner Temple of the Soul

"The most important thing now is to reveal the inner temple of the soul with right thinking and right activity."

Willaru Huayta, Quechua Nation, Peru

Immortal Souls

"All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine."
Socrates

Art According to Paul Cezanne

"When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art."
Paul Cezanne

(January 19, 1839 - October 22, 1906)

Watch What We Do

"You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say." A.A. Milne

(January 18, 1882 - January 31, 1956)

Never Let Shyness Conquer Your Mind

“If you want to do something big in your life, you must remember that shyness is only the mind. If you think shy, you act shy. If you think confident you act confident. Therefore never let shyness conquer your mind.”
Arfa Karim Randhawa
She became the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional at age 9.
(1995 - January 14, 2012)

Link: http://www.geekwire.com/2012/arfa-karim-randhawa-19952012-remembering-philosophy-life

Anger

"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."

Albert Einstein

Justice, Peace and Brotherhood

"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love"

Things That Matter

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The Final Word in Reality

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Born Broken

"Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue."

Eugene O'Neill, The Great God Brown

Hard Work and Character

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."

Sam Ewing

Christianity

"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried." 

G. K. Chesterton

Love Winter

"Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius."
Pietro Aretino

True Beauty

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Faith

"Faith is like radar that sees through the fog." 

Corrie Ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord

The Maze of Human Life

"Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue."
Buddha

Work

"I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.  I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live."

George Bernard Shaw

Do Something

"I must do something" always solves more problems than "Something must be done."  Unknown

On Top of the Mountain

"We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves."

Langston Hughes

We All Participate

"We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes."

Anne C. Weisberg

Take the First Step

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

New Year's Resolutions

"Resolution One: I will live for God.
Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will."
Jonathan Edwards