The Joy of Being Read To

The story of the human race

is the story of men and women

selling themselves short.

~Abraham Maslow

Dance Like Nobody's Watching

"You know you're dancing 

when tears of pain and happiness

blend in with your sweat" ~anonymous

Gather Ye People & Party

Call it a clan, call it a network,
call it a tribe, call it a family: 

Whatever you call it,
whoever you are, you need one.

~Jane Howard

Everything's Okay

“Some people wear their smile like a disguise. 

Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. 

I know 'cause I'm like that a lot. 

You think everything's ok, and it is . . . 

'till it's not.” ~Ani Difranco

May the sun shine all day long, everything go right and nothing wrong. May those you love bring love back to you, and may all the wishes you wish come true! ~Irish Blessing~

Come sit by my hearth...

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it.  Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way. ~Vincent van Gogh

Contemplative Creation of Beauty

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. ~Edgar Allan Poe

Life is GREEN!

As long as you're green, you're growing.
As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.
~Ray Kroc

Fear Not the Toughness

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face

conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

~Greta Garbo

Life as a Conversation Piece

I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece.
~Hedda Hopper

More than Good Talk alone

A dog is not considered a good dog

because he is a good barker.

A 'man is not considered a good 'man

because he is a good talker.

~Buddha

Love What I Can't Expect

We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected. ~Ben Okri

Blinded by the Light

In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison.  I believe that in the heart of each human being there is something which I can only describe as a "child of darkness" who is equal and complementary to the more obvious "child of light."  ~Laurens van der Pos

Take a Good Look at My Face

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back. ~Dale Carnegie