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