The Candle

There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

- Edith Wharton

Be Confident!

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

- Norman Vincent Peale

Smiling Toys

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

- Christopher Lasch

Blossoming Blue

Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature

- Gerard de Nerval quotes

Live like the Butterfly

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

- Richard Bach

Blue blue blue

The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.

- Dustin Hoffman

Waves are Coming!

The waves of the sea, Help me get back to me

- Jill Davis

Bloom

Flowers don't worry about how the're going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.

- Jim Carrey

Christmas around the Corner

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.

- Eric Sevareid

Shy

Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.

- Brian Jacques

Waves

There’s no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.

- Frank Herbert

City at Night

Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.

- Poppy Z. Brite

Park Fun

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

- Michael Jackson

Red and White

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.

- Gwen Stefani

Starbucks

Starbucks represents something beyond a cup of coffee.

- Howard Schultz

Let It Grow

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

- John Lennon

Yellow Flower

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

- Max Muller

Drink On...

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

-  Jim Morrison

No to Bully

A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.

-  Seth Godin

Shoes on Show

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

- Marilyn Monroe

Homemade Pizza

I wish success could be ordered like delivery pizza, because I’d order take out.


― Jarod Kintz

Ants

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

- Lao Tzu

Spring

Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men.

- Chinese Proverb

Discover the Dark

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

- Plato

Playful Kid

Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.

-Abraham Maslow

Swinging Chimes

Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, 'T is angels' music

- George Herbert

Diva on Heels

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

- Bertolt Brecht

Alive at Night

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

- Vincent Van Gogh

Catch the View!

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

- Ansel Adams

Love the Bugs

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

-Gustave Flaubert

Saved!

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

- Bible 

Above Everything Else

God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son.

- The Bible

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

- Coco Chanel 

Drive My Car

That was my dream, to drive for Ferrari, but I am not a kid any more. If Ferrari is the best team and if I get the chance to drive for Ferrari, it would be with pleasure.

-Jean Alesi

The Moon and You

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

- Mark Twain

The Sky Everywhere

The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.

-Jandy Nelson

Kisses for Chocolates

A Kiss is a terrible name for a piece of chocolate shaped like a water droplet, because kisses are hot and would melt chocolate—even if it is wearing an astronaut suit made out of tinfoil.


- Jarod Kintz

Lonely Puppy

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man. 

- Mark Twain

Little Man

A person's a person, no matter how small.

-Dr Seuss

Playground Seat

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.

 - Eric Hoffer

Somewhere

Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time.

- Nicholas Sparks 

Study to be Brainy

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

- Victor Hugo

New Year, New Hope

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. 

- Albert Einstein

New Hope for 2013

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.

- Edith Lovejoy Pierce