Freedom

Winter Luxury

"Winter is a time of promise because there is so little to do — or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so."

~Stanley Crawford "A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm" 1992

The Truth

Hold On Darling!

be fearless

Think Positive

All the small things

Blessings!

"Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence." - Og Mandino

Powerful!

"How would your life be different if…You stopped validating your victim mentality? Let today be the day…You shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve."
Steve Maraboli, "Life, the Truth, and Being Free"

Warmth

"The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring."
Oscar Wilde

Life itself is simple...

"Life itself is simple…it's just not easy."
Steve Maraboli

Art makes my soul happy...

Joy

Simple.

Let go... or be dragged

Good Bye Maya

Maya Angelou

 

 

4 April 1928 - 28 May 2014

 

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
Maya Angelou

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style”
 Maya Angelou

 

 

Find the good

Thoughts

Circular Thinking

"Thoughts are circular, they don't take you anywhere. They don't have feet-they can't gain any ground. They can trap you if you don't eventually stand up and make a move."

- Katie Kacvinsky, "Awaken"

"A Language Older Than Words"

"What if the point of life has nothing to do with the creation of an ever-expanding region of control? What if the point is not to keep at bay all those people, beings, objects and emotions that we so needlessly fear? What if the point instead is to let go of that control? What if the point of life, the primary reason for existence, is to lie naked with your lover in a shady grove of trees? What if the point is to taste each other's sweat and feel the delicate pressure of finger on chest, thigh on thigh, lip on cheek? What if the point is to stop, then, in your slow movements together, and listen to the birdsong, to watch the dragonflies hover, to look at your lover's face, then up at the undersides of leaves moving together in the breeze? What if the point is to invite these others into your movement, to bring trees, wind, grass, dragonflies into your family and in so doing abandon any attempt to control them? What if the point all along has been to get along, to relate, to experience things on their own terms? What if the point is to feel joy when joyous, love when loving, anger when angry, thoughtful when full of thought? What if the point from the beginning has been to simply be? "

- Derrick Jensen, "A Language Older Than Words"

Keep Your Soul

"To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?"
- Ayn Rand, "The Fountainhead"

Judgment

"Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for new understanding."
- Steve Maraboli

I'm a dreamer

Smile For Me

Wise too

Wise

Let Go Of Drama

The Art of Letting Go

Positive

At the end of the day

Life...

Winter Comfort

"Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home."

- Edith Sitwell

Image Pop

A Plan

Radiant

Rest for the weary

One of my fav's

Humility

"Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble."

- Andrew Murray

"If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit."

- Thomas Merton, "Thoughts in Solitude"

"Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future."

- Colleen Hoover, "Slammed"

Salvation

"What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation."
- Don DeLillo

Yes please!

Happy Right Now

Don't compare

Recipe For Happiness