Happiness is...

Music...

Music warms the heart and soothes the soul.

Love all...

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare

Most Important

The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.
Rod Steiger

Beginning

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson

Challenged

“When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.”
Viktor Frankl

Yourself

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
Andre Gide

Ideas

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
Edward de Bono

Write

If you wish to be a writer, write.
Epictetus

A Canvas

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
Henry David Thoreau

From the heart...

If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart; if they come from the tongue, they will not pass beyond the ears.
Sufi proverb

Impossible Things

I wonder?

One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else.

In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple do not have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear.

Arguing serves the function of being a zone of familiarity into which you can retreat when you are afraid of making a creative breakthrough.
Gay Hendricks

Originality

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix Potter

SImplicity

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci

Mind

"It's not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."
René Descartes

Creativity

The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?"
But it is "why in God's name isn't everyone creative?"
Where was the human potential lost?
How was it crippled?
I think therefore, a good question might be not "why do people create?" but "why do people not create or innovate?"
We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.
Abraham Maslow

Life is Pretty Simple

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Leonardo da Vinci

Beware

Beware of the man whose belly does not move when he laughs.
Chinese Proverb

Change

"Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary."
Viktor Frankl from Man's Search for Meaning

Love is...

“Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.”
Viktor Frankl

Don't say....

"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Where there is shouting.....

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
Leonardo da Vinci

Heart

A heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved.
The Wizard from the Wizard of Oz

A New Year

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year.
It is that we should have a new soul.
G. K. Chesterton

Blessed

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
Hamilton Wright Mabie

Creativity

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Erich Fromm

Not only for Christmas

Somehow, not only for Christmas
But all the long year through
The joy that you give to others
Is the joy that comes back to you.
And the more you spend in blessing
The poor and lonely and sad,
The more of your heart's possessing
Returns to you glad.
John Greenleaf Whittier:

Remember

Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold
Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

Immature love...

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"
Erich Fromm

Peace

You are your own peace. Be it.
Dr. Wayne Dyer

Work and Play

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
Mark Twain

Computers

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Joseph Campbell

Good Friends

Sole Purpose....

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Jung, "Memories, Dreams, Reflections", 1962

Torture

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Carl Jung

Unseen

Problems

Problems are not stop signs. They are guidelines.

Government

Nature

"Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another."
John Muir, naturalist and explorer (1838-1914)