7/31/06

24 Days 11 Hrs 2 Mins 15 Secs - but who's counting? ;)

7/28/06

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

today open your eyes and your mind and look at all the miracles in your life. start with that most miraculous of all - yourself! look at your fingers, how they miraculously move and bend and grasp (and type!), look at your wrists, how you can turn and twist them, look at your eyes, those which are looking and think of your brain, that which is thinking. we are nothing but miracles. look, see, wonder, smile, enjoy!

7/27/06

As regards the quietude of the sage, he is not quiet because quietness is said to be good. He is quiet because the multitude of things cannot disturb his quietude. ~ Chuang-Tzu

7/26/06

Courage: A gazelle turns to face a pack of lions. ~ Rumi

7/25/06

Go ahead and do the impossible. It’s worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn’t. ~ Walter Bagehot

7/21/06 part 2

Frank Baum imagined a Kansas girl being swept by tornado to a faraway land where she meets a wizard. But Baum needed a title for his tale.
Serendipity struck one afternoon as he was filing paperwork.
“My gaze was caught by the gilt letters on the three drawers of the filing cabinet,” Baum later wrote. “The first was A-G. The next drawer was labeled H-N. And on the last one were the letters O-Z.”
~ IdeaSpotting

7/21/06

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place; from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. ~ Pablo Picasso

7/19/06

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange those ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. ~ George Bernard Shaw

7/18/06

Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries. ~ Christopher Morley, writer (1890-1957)

(thank you, ginger!)

7/17/06

All our dreams can come true...if we have the courage to pursue them. ~ Walt Disney

7/13/06

There are many kinds of security and one kind lies in the knowledge that one is dedicating his hours and days to doing the things that he considers most important. ~ Ben Shahn, The Shape of Content

7/10/06

Play well, or play badly, but play truly. ~ Konstantin Stanislavsky

7/5/06

A tiger walks like a tiger. ~ Tiger Heart, Tiger Mind

7/4/06

Even fat fairies can fly.