Love

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm,

but willing to draw blood in its defense.

  ~Mark Overby~


Instinct

Trust your own instinct.  

Your mistakes might 

as well be your own,

 instead of 

someone else's.  

~Billy Wilder~

Knowledge

 Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.  

~Ralph Waldo Emerson!~

My Religion

When I do good,

 I feel good.  

When I do bad,

 I feel bad. 

 That's my religion. 

 ~Abraham Lincoln~

Creativity

Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent 

with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.  

~Henri Matisse~

Haunt

Recalling days of sadness, 

memories haunt me. 

 Recalling days of happiness,

 I haunt my memories. 

  ~Robert Brault~

The Road

Hope is like a road in the country; 

there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, 

the road comes into existence.  

~Lin Yutang~

Daydream

A daydream is a meal 

at which images are eaten.

  Some of us are gourmets, 

some gourmands,

 and a good many 

take their images 

precooked out of a can

 and swallow them down whole,

 absent-mindedly 

and with little relish.  

~W.H. Auden~

Our Own Special Light

We are each gifted in a unique and important way. 

It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.  

~Evelyn Dunbar~

I am One

I am only one, 

but I am one.  

I cannot do everything, 

but I can do something. 

 And I will not let what I cannot do

 interfere with what

 I can do.  

~Edward Everett Hale~

Perpetual Morning

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, 

the day is a perpetual morning. 

 ~Henry David Thoreau~

Different Speeds

Common sense and

 a sense of humor are the same thing, 

moving at different speeds. 

 A sense of humor 

is just common sense, 

dancing.  

~William James~

Free Exchange

“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples

 then you and I will still each have one apple. 

But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, 

then each of us will have two ideas.”

~George Bernard Shaw~

The Ones Who Cause It

We create our own unhappiness. 

The purpose of suffering is 

to help us understand 

we are

 the ones who cause it.

 ~Willie Nelson~

Happy Valentine's Day

From our Happy Hippie Hearts to yours!

Have a day filled with love and joy!

Calm

The cyclone derives

 its powers from

 a calm center.  

So does a person.  

~Norman Vincent Peale~

The Obstacle and Oops

The obstacle is the path.

  ~Zen Proverb~

A note:

My apologies that Tuesday's blog got posted at 75% Hippie due to my extreme spazness!

Here is Tuesday's blog and it really does prove that sometimes,

The obstacle is the path!

The Rest of Our Lives

We should all be concerned about the future

 because we will have to spend 

the rest of our lives there. 

~Charles F. Kettering~

Bridges

Sometimes you must cross a bridge and other times you need to burn it. 

But, always keep building one and never lose your faith in life. 

~Dodinsky~

From the Heart

Only from the heart

 can you touch the sky. 

 ~Rumi~

Surprise

Would you like a water bottle ma'am?

Focus

You can't depend on your eyes 

when your 

imagination is out of focus.  

~Mark Twain~

Rejuvenate

Nature rejuvenates so quickly, so completely.  

Though we often view ourselves otherwise, we are nature.  

~Jeb Dickerson~

Nature More

 

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
~ Lord Byron~

Secrets

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of the oceans.  

~Kahlil Gibran~

Nobody

 

Be grateful for luck. 

 Pay the thunder no mind 

- listen to the birds. 

 And don't hate nobody.
~ Eubie Blake~

Appreciation

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, 

he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.  

~Frank A. Clark~

Being thankful is so much more than words.

Being thankful is about action.

Beautiful Things

Keep your faith in beautiful things;
in the sun when it is hidden,
in the Spring when it is gone.

~  Roy R. Gibson ~