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

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

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

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

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

Yellow Flower

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

- Max Muller

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

Alive at Night

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

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 

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

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

Like a Flower in the Rain

A flower can't grow without rain. Too much rain and it drowns. And yet the most beautiful of the lotus flowers are the ones that grow in the deepest mud. 

― Sherrilyn Kenyon

Lovebug

I never thought that I'd get hit by this lovebug again.

- Jonas Brothers