Ready for Spring

All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.

-- Indian Proverb

[Photo taken by my Mom in my parents' yard, summer 2009]

Destined

"Every man has his own destiny. The only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him."

-- Henry Miller

[Photo: Van Vechten]

Interessant

"I am an excitable person, who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls."

-- Anaïs Nin

Wild Ideas

"People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards."

-- Oscar Wilde

Birthday Wishes for Andy

Happy Birthday Andy Warhol! He would have turned 81 today.


"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

-- Andy Warhol

Is It Really So Strange?

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."

-- François-Marie Arouet aka Voltaire

Talk Talk

"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but, far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."

-- Lady Dorothy Nevill

Think About It

"You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you."

-- Mary Tyler Moore

You Know Them Well

"I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all I knew): Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who."

-- Rudyard Kipling

Policy of Truth

"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."

-- Sophia Loren

Something to Consider ... Something to Remember

"Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Write It On Your Heart

Work For Love

"There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time."

-- Coco Chanel

Got to Be Good

"When I'm good, I'm very good; but when I'm bad, I'm better."

-- Mae West in I'm No Angel (1933)

Uh Huh

"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self."

-- Iris Murdoch

[Image by Bethany Steinsieck]

Words to Live By

"If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed."
-- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

R-E-S-P-E-C-T?

"The dismal fact is that self-respect has nothing to do with the approval of others -- who are, after all, deceived easily enough; has nothing to do with reputation, which, as Rhett Butler told Scarlett O'Hara, is something people with courage can do without."

-- Joan Didion, from her chapter On Self-Respect, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

[Image courtesy of Mostly Americana]