To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
e.e. cummings, 1955

Light

The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow.
Charles R. Brown

The Art of Being Happy....

"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness
from common things."
Henry Ward Beecher

Focus

"Concentration is the secret of strength."

Following the crowd

You cannot escape.....

“You cannot escape the results of your thoughts.
Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal.
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.”James Allen

Learning...

"You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes."
Buchminster Fuller, mathematician and philosopher who never graduated from college but received 46 doctorates

Detour

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Zig Ziglar

Joy and Work

“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence.
To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”
Pearl Buck

Change Your Mind

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
William James, a Harvard Psychologist

Turn...

Turn your face to the sun and you'll never see the shadows.
Helen Keller

Thoughts

Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.
Thomas Fuller

pic found here

Love....

Fear

“Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.”
Yoda

Your work...

"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it."
Buddha

Perfect

Knowledge....

"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains it's original dimensions."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Happiness

"There is no way to Happiness. Happiness is the way."
Buddha

Splash

Happy Pancake Day!

Yes! There really is a Pancake Day!
(checkout my Pancake folktale and Recipe at StorytellingCookingAndKids.blogspot.com )

Pancake Poem
by Shel Silverstein

Who wants a pancake,
Sweet and piping hot?
Good little Grace looks up and says,
"I'll take the one on top."
Who else wants a pancake,
Fresh off the griddle?
Terrible Teresa smiles and says,
"I'll take the one in the middle."

You can....

Light

Wisdom...

The Real Purpose of Books......

Books

Destiny

The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in.
Harold Goddard

Within our reach...

The geat blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
Seneca
(7 B.C. - 65 A.A.)

painting found at PauletteInsall.com/gallery

Every Day

Make every day count.
Appreciate every moment and take from it everything that you possibly can,
for you may never be able to experience it again.

Day's Resolutions

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's.
Henry Moore

Life

Love cures....

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Karl Menninger

Fall...

Practice....

Predestined??

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Ralph Blum

The Beginning

Making the beginning is one third of the work.
Irish Proverb

All Great Deeds

~ All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. ~
Albert Camus

Problems...

Two Ways to Live

Examine Yourself

When you see a man of worth, think of how you may emulate him. When you see one who is unworthy, examine yourself.
Confucius

The end??

~ What appears to be the end may really be a new beginning. ~
Unknown