let yourself be drawn ...

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray." -Rumi

make new...

"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new." -- Ursula K. LeGuin

day by day ...

"Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones of genius."

— Elbert Hubbard

Love this quote, the words soothe my mind. The way my life goes, I need to remember them daily.

try it ...

"A good laugh is sunshine in a house."

— William Makepeace Thackeray

persist ...

‎"Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles. Your decision to be, have and do something out of the ordinary entails facing difficulties and challenges that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else." - Brian Tracy

believe ...

"I've always thought you've got to believe in luck to get it." — Victoria Holt

keep moving ...

“Life is like a bicycle, to keep your balance you must keep moving.” - Albert Einstein

you never know ...

"The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way."

— Diane Arbus

begin it ...

"Then indecision brings its own delays,

And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;

What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

be kind ...

These words crossed my path today. I needed to hear them, thought I'd share.

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." — Plato

"Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

a maze of passages ...

"Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley.

But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove good for us."

– A.J. Cronin

you decide ...

"You decide every moment of every day: Who you are and what you believe in. You get a second chance, every second". – Author unknown

keep going ...

“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”

-- Maya Angelou

everyone needs a victory ...

"When you get right down to it, life has a fairly simple formula. Everyone needs a victory every day. That's what keeps us going. Each of us should do what we can to give others opportunities for victories. And each of us should do what we can to minimize moments of defeat for the people we love." —Don Gale

I read this quote on another blog tonight, I liked it so much that I thought I'd share.

something sweet ...

homemade ladybug cupcakes — 10.01.10

“What you will do matters. All you need is to do it." ~ Judy Grahn

pushing through ...

I saw these sweet flowers peeking out of the ground today, decided they needed a little photo session.

Tulips — 02.18.2010

Tulips — 02.18.2010

Tulips — 02.18.2010

"First a howling blizzard woke us, 
Then the rain came down to soak us, 
And now before the eye can focus - Crocus." ~Lilja Rogers

"No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow." ~Proverb

"If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom."
~Audra Foveo

"It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!" ~Mark Twain

happy valentine's day ...

"kisses are a better fate
than wisdom."
~e.e. cummings

"True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked." ~Erich Segal

"The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them." ~Stephen King

where the air is sweet ...

Clouds over Bothell, WA — 02.06.2010

"Sunny Day. Sweepin' the clouds away. On my way to where the air is sweet. Can you tell me how to get, How to get to Sesame Street." — lyrics from Sesame Street Theme

reflecting ...

02.03.2010

“There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.” — Walt Streightiff

just do it ...

"If you stare at it long enough / the mountain becomes unclimbable. / Tally it up. How much time have you spent / waiting for the soup to cool? / Icicles hang from January gutters / only as long as they can. Fingers pause above piano keys for the chord / that will not form. Slam them down / I say. Make music of what you can."

— Charles Rafferty, from "Against Hesitation"