(and y'all thought I wasn't listening, hehehe)
Never give them the satisfaction of seeing how they've affected you....kill 'em with kindness. ~my Mom
As long as you can play the piano, you'll never be lonely or bored. ~Miss Inez, my piano teacher
Throw away your thesaurus!!! . ~Donald Smith, my art teacher & writing mentor
If one of your friends is mad at you, you can say they're an asshole...if all of your friends are mad at you, you need to take a look at yourself. ~Maxine
Before you even start cooking, get out all of your ingredients first. ~Aunt Joycelon (this applies to most areas of life, not just the kitchen, by the way)
I could have my house perfect, but I want to spend time outside working on my flowers. ~Aunt Joycelon
When someone is trying to sell you something and won't take no for an answer, tell them you've got a litter of hunting dogs and try to sell him one...they'll shut up quick. ~Belo
Roll with the punches. Aunt Sylvia
If he can't dazzle us with his brilliance, he'll baffle us with his bullshit. ~Becky
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all, I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ~Agatha Christie
To fight for the right, without question or pause, To be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause. ~Joe Darion
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of man as a whole ever experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. ~Helen Keller
You can have it all, you just can't have it all at once. ~Oprah Winfrey
The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. ~Normal Vincent Peale
If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. Thomas J. Watson Sr.
I wish to live my life deliberately, to front the essential facts of life; to suck the very marrow of life and see if I can learn what it has to teach, and not, when it comes my time to die, discover that I have not lived. ~Henry David Thoreau
The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of his cause. ~William James (via the Wizard)
Wrong is but falsehood put in practice. ~Landor
On mistakes we make with our children....it's going to happen....but when we cover our children up with love, the little mistakes we make sort of have a way of slipping away....
On art and music....I am a musician, and I enjoy art....but I do not put a lot of energy into knowing who wrote what and who painted what....I love and breathe the arts for their own sake...if I had never heard of Rachmaninof, Rhapsody on a Theme from Paganini would still make me cry....
We are in control of our own reactions to events and issues in our lives....others may make decisions about us that will affect us, but don't ever give away the personal power of your reactions. (like I follow this-hey, it's good to have goals))
I have for most of my adult life fixed people or made people's lives better or rehabilitated people for a living...I still do it to help when I can....but I do not do it in my personal relationships anymore...sorry.
And on that note...so you think you want to get to know me? ok....listen carefully...to be involved with me is to know yourself. Enough said.
There is no greater joy than losing oneself in creation of one sort or another.
Doing something right takes about the same amount of time as doing something halfway.
Don't put a lot of energy into trying to get out of doing a job....by the time you figure a way around it, the job itself could have been done
more gems from me and my loved ones on Page Two...we have so much wisdom i couldn't fit it here, hehehe
What a desolate place would be a world without flowers?-It would be a face without a smile; a feast without a welcome.-Are not flowers the stars of the earth?-And are not our stars the flowers of heaven? ~Clara L. Balfour
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. ~Wordsworth
What a pity flowers can utter no sound?-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle,-oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be! ~H.W. Beecher
The flowers are nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty. ~Croly
Just living is not enough, said the butterfly...one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ~Hans Christian Anderson
To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy than to attempt fully to understand. ~Tuckerson
