"I was going to conquer the world, but got distracted by something sparkly..."
~ Kim Miles - lampwork bead artist
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"Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you truly love."
~jalaluddin rumi
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If you hold onto the handle she said its easy to maintain the illusion of control, but its more fun if you just let the wind carry you.
~The Story People
~Brian Andreas
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"Remember to eschew sesquipedalian obfuscation and proclivity at all costs."
~Aunt Babby
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"We are what we think.
All that we are, arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts - we make the world. "
~Buddah
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What I envision...
I manifest.
~anon.
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~Life is short,
be sparkly!
Margot Potter
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"Good Chi only gets you so far
...hard work will get you further."
~anon
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"Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.”
--William Morris, designer, 1834-1896
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If you're not familiar with the work of Steven Wright, he's the famously
erudite scientist and comic who once said: "I woke up one morning and all
of my stuff had been stolen and replaced by exact duplicates."
His mind sees things differently than most of us do, to our amazement
and amusement. Here are some of his gems:
1 - I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
2 - Borrow money from pessimists -- They don't expect it back.
3 - Half the people you know are below average.
4 - 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
5 - 82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
6 - A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
7 - A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
8 - If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain.
9 - All those who believe in psycho-kinesis, raise my hand.
10 - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
11 - I almost had a psychic girlfriend.....but she left me before we met.
12 - OK, so what's the speed of dark?
13 - How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
14 - If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked
something.
15 - Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
16 - When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
17 - Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
18 - Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now.
19 - I intend to live forever......so far, so good.
20 - If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
21 - Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
22 - What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
23 - My mechanic told me, 'I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your
horn louder.'
24 - Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
25 - If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
26 - A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
27 - Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
28 - The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the
bread.
29 - To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is
research.
30 - The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
31 - The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
32 -The colder the Xray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.
33 - Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film.
34 - If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your
headlights work?
~steven wright
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Enthusiasm is contagious.
Start an epidemic.
~anon
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While we have the gift of life,
it seems to me the only tragedy
is to allow part of us to die --
whether it is our spirit,
our creativity,
or our glorious uniqueness.
~Gilda Radnor
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile,
a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment,
or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
~Leo Buscaglia
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
~Goethe
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You can't depend on your eyes
when your imagination is out of focus.
~ Mark Twain
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You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
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Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
L a u g h.
Choose with no regret.
Continue to Learn.
Appreciate your friends.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
~Mary Anne M.B.L. Radmacher
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by
the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.
So throw off the bowlines,
sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
~ Mark Twain, attributed
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Sometimes our light goes out
but is blown into flame by another human being.
Each of us owes deepest thanks to those
who have rekindled this light.
~Albert Schweitzer
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There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
~Rusty Berkus
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Our life is frittered away by detail...
Simplify, SIMPLIFY.
~Thoreau
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Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.
That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.
~Emily Kimbrough
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Plant impossible gardens.
Look forward to dreams. Cry during movies.
Swing as high as you can on a swingset, by moonlight.
Cultivate moods.
Do it for love. Take lots of naps.
Take moonbaths.
Giggle with children.
Listen to old people.
Drive away fear. Play with everything.
Entertain your inner child.
Build a fort with blankets.
Get wet. Hug trees. Write love letters.
~SARK
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Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things,
but just look what they can do when they stick together.
~Vista M. Kelly
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Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.
~Gladys Browyn Stern
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What we do today, right now,
Will have an accumulated effect
on all our tomorrows.
~Alexandra Stoddard
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Never give up on anybody.
~Hubert H. Humphrey
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Behold the turtle.
He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.
~James Bryant Conant
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Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; for they too have their story.
Avoid loud and agressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let that not blind you to what real virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself...
Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be; and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all it's slum, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy.
~ Max Ehrmann
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Ask Calvin's Dad
Calvin's dad answering questions, quoted from various Calvin and Hobbes books by Bill Watterson.
Q. Why does the sun set?
A. It's because hot air rises. The sun's hot in the middle of the day, so it rises high in the sky. In the evening then, it cools down and sets.
Q. Why does it go from east to west?
A. Solar wind.
Q. Why does the sky turn red as the sun sets?
A. That's all the oxygen in the atmosphere catching fire.
Q. Where does the sun go when it sets?
A. The sun sets in the west. In Arizona actually, near Flagstaff. That's why the rocks there are so red.
Q. Don't the people get burned up?
A. No, the sun goes out as it sets. That's why it's dark at night.
Q. Doesn't the sun crush the whole state as it lands?
A. Ha ha, of course not. Hold a quarter up. See, the sun's just about the same size.
Q. I thought I read that the sun was really big.
A. You can't believe everything you read, I'm afraid.
Q. How come old photographs are always black and white? Didn't they have color film back then?
A. Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs are in color. It's just that the world was black and white then. The world didn't turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it was pretty grainy color for a while, too.
Q. But then why are old paintings in color?! If the world was black and white, wouldn't artists have painted it that way?
A. Not necessarily. A lot of great artists were insane.
Q. But... But how could they have painted in color anyway? Wouldn't their paints have been shades of gray back then?
A. Of course, but they turned colors like everything else did in the '30s.
Q. So why didn't old black and white photos turn color too?
A. Because they were color pictures of black and white, remember?
Q. Dad, will you explain the theory of relativity to me? I don't understand why time goes slower at great speed.
A. It's because you keep changing time zones. See, if you fly to California, you gain three hours on a five-hour flight, right? So if you go at the speed of light, you gain more time, because it doesn't take as long to get there. Of course, the theory of relativity only works if you're going west.
Q. Why do my eyes shut when I sneeze?
A. If your lids weren't closed, the force of the explosion would blow your eyeballs out and stretch the optic nerve, so your eyes would flop around and you'd have to point them with your hands to see anything.
Q. How do bank machines work?
A. Well, let's say you want 25 dollars. You punch in the amount and behind the machine there's a guy with a printing press who makes the money and sticks it out this slot.
Q. Sort of like the guy who lives up in our garage and opens the door?
A. Exactly.
Q. What causes the wind?
A. Trees sneezing.
Q. Why does ice float?
A. Because it's cold. Ice wants to get warm, so it goes to the top of liquids to be nearer to the sun.
Q. Is that true?
A. Look it up and find out.
Q. I should just look up stuff in the first place.
Q. How come you know so much?
A. It's all in the book you get when you become a father.
~Bill Watterson
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I learned that you should feel when writing,
not like Lord Byron on a mountain top,
but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten
- happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.
~Brenda Ueland
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Life is a train of moods like a string of beads;
and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses,
which paint the world their own hue,
and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[Fry]: "Brothers and sisters, get your love beads! Can't journey to the centre of your mind without love beads!"
[Hippy girl]: "Wow, look at the colours! This'll go great with my soul"
[Zoidberg]: "Glad you like them! I've been making fine jewelry for years, apparently."
~From Futurama (Episode: "Bendin' in the Wind")
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“On the motionless branches of some trees,
autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads,
as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . .”
~Charles Dickens
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"Please don't disturb my artistic harmony..."
~Carla
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"Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found."
~James Russell Lowell
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“Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.”
~Erik Christopher Zeeman
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"Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exists."
~Thomas Disch
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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns
in order to look at things in a different way.
~Edward de Bono
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones to keep.
~Scott Adams
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Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.
You either have not goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts
in a striving toward an important goal.
~Maxwell Maltz
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Everything you can imagine is real.
~Pablo Picasso
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Happiness is not in the mere possession of money;
it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
~Franklin Roosevelt
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Ideas are like rabbits.
You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
~John Steinbeck
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To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wildflower...
hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour...
~William Blake
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Think left and think right and think low and think high.
Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
~Dr. Seuss
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Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
~Anna Freud
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The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
~James Broughton
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace;
making the complicated simple, awesomely simple,
that’s creative.
~Charles Mingus
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Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
~General George Smith Patton, Jr.
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Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.
~Noam Chomsky
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