A place to find a chuckle or bit of inspiration!
January 11, 2008 — “While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” Angela Schwindt
January 12, 2008 – “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” Andy Warhol
January 13, 2008 – “Nobody, not even the poets, has ever measured how much a heart can hold.”
Zelda Fitzgerald
January 14, 2008 – “Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.” Margaret Cousins
January 15, 2008 — “No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.” Aesop
January 16, 2008 — “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
January 17, 2008 — “Live out of your imagination, not your history.” Stephen Covey
JanuJary 18, 2008 — “Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely.” Thomas P. Murphy
January 19, 2008 — “Every person in this life has something to teach me—and as soon as I accept that, I open myself to truly listening.” Catherine Doucette
January 20, 2008 — “Friendship doubles our joys and halves our grief.” Dolly Madison
January 21, 2008 — “It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph—only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.” Susan Sontag
January 22, 2008 — “The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.” David Hare
January 23, 2008 — “The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.” Anais Nin
January 24, 2008 — “Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.” –Albert Einstein
January 25, 2008 — “The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.” David Hare
January 26, 2008 — “Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.” Ralph Marston
January 27, 2008 — “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
January 28, 2008 — “Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.”
Mike Murdock
January 29, 2008 — “Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.” Natalie Goldberg
January 30, 2008 — “That which a man willingly shares, he keeps. That which he selfishly keeps, he loses.” Unknown
January 31, 2008 — “Flowers are love’s truest language.” Benjamin Park
February 1, 2008 — “He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds his peace at home.”
Johann Goethe
February 2, 2008 — “Having a sister is like having a best friend you can’t get rid of. You know whatever you do, they’ll still be there.”
Amy Li
February 3, 2008 — “Some days you tame the tiger. And some days the tiger eats you for lunch.”
Tug McGraw
February 4, 2008 — “Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.”
Sarah Ban Breathnach
February 5, 2008 — “Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
February 6, 2008 — “Rest: the sweet sauce of labor.” Plutarch
February 7, 2008 – “Poka dots . . . are so versatile. Dots can be playful, feminine, retro, or sophisticated (think Audrey Hepburn in a black-and-white polka-dot scarf).”
from Martha Stewart Weddings
February 8, 2008 — Imagination: /noun/ the act or power of forming a mental image of something not present to the senses or not previously known or experienced; creative ability; resourcefulness
February 9, 2008 — “Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.”
Leo Buscalglia
February 10, 2008 — Love: /verb/ to feel an unselfish, loyal and benevolent concern for others; to feel a passion, devotion or tenderness for
February 11, 2008 — “Nobody, not even the poets, has ever measured how much a heart can hold.”
Zelda Fitzgerald
February 12, 2008 –“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.”
Willa Cather
February 13, 2008 — Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours. Swedish Proverb
February 14, 2008 — We look forward to the time when the power of love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessing of peace. William Ewart Gladstone
February 15, 2008 — Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
February 16, 2008 — Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor… Let no one ever come to you without leaving better or happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile; kindness in your warm greeting. Mother Teresa
February 17, 2008 — “Whether you come in to visit, or just to rest, when you enter our home,
may you be blessed.”
February 18, 2008 — “On our anniversary I want to thank you for being with me for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, through thinness and thickness, in joy and in home improvement… ”
February 19, 2008 — “Don’t be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. (Richard Bach)
February 20, 2008 — Like branches on a tree, we may grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one.
February 21, 2008 — “There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them. Werner Heisenberg
February 22, 2008 — “Somehow I have to believe that I’m worth all the aggravation I cause myself.”
February 23, 2008 — “We may be blinded by our own perceived flaws, but those who love us have clearer vision.” Sarah Ban Breathnach
February 24, 2008 – “The only person I must be better than is the person I was yesterday.”
February 25, 2008 — “Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.” W. T. Purkiser
February 26,2008 — Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today. (Cherokee Indian Proverb)
February 27, 2008 — The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. (Bernard M. Baruch)
February 28, 2008 – “Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.” (Virginia Woolf)
February 29, 2008 – Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. –Vince Lombardi
March 1, 2008 – March is the month of expectation. -Emily Dickinson
March 2, 2008 – A very important part of the joy of living is the joy of giving. -William Buck
March 3, 2008 – No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. -Charles Dickens
March 4, 2008 – Happiness improves with practice. -Don Ward
March 5, 2008 – Be happy. It is a way of being wise. -Colette
March 6, 2008 – Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a tack; it should make you get up and do something about it. -Unknown
March 7, 2008 – Love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish. -Anne Lindbergh
March 8, 2008 – My friends are my estate. -Emily Dickinson
March 9, 2008 – What is life for? It is for you. -Abraham Maslow
March 10, 2008 – What comes from the heart, goes to the heart. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
March 11, 2008 – Never lose your sense of wonder. -Joe Batten
March 12, 2008 – Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. -Emory Austin
March 13, 2008 – Life is a great big canvas and you should throw all the paint on it you can. -Danny Kaye
March 14, 2008 – The proper use of imagination is to give beauty to the world. -Lin Yutang
March 15, 2008 – Happiness isn’t something you experience, it’s something you remember. -Oscar Levant
March 16, 2008 – The human heart yearns for the beautiful. -Harriet Beecher Stowe
March 17, 2008 – The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be. -Laura Wilson
March 18, 2008 – You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. -Jack London
March 19, 2008 — When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it. -Sigmund Freud
March 20, 2008 – Memory feeds imagination. -Amy Tan
March 21, 2008 – It’s Spring Fever… 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
March 22, 2008 – Rest is not a matter of doing absolutely nothing. Rest is repair. -Daniel W. Josselyn
March 23, 2008 — Every once in a while, take the scenic route. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
March 24, 2008 – Friends are kind to each other’s hopes. They cherish each other’s dreams. -Henry David Thoreau
March 25, 2008 — Memories are our greatest inheritance.-Peter Hamill
March 26, 2008 — Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought. -Robert Browning
March 27, 2008 — A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. -Frank Capra
March 29, 2008 – Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. -Abraham Lincoln
March 30, 2008 – “Live in such a way that those who know you but don’t know God will come to
know God because they know you…” — annomyous
March 31, 2008 – Let memories be beauty in your lie, loke song and roses in the winter sun. — Sascha
April 1, 2008 – Take time to marvel at the wonders of life. -Gail Lundy
April 2, 2008 — Rest is not a matter of doing absolutely nothing. Rest is repair. -Daniel W. Josselyn
April 3, 2008 — Give your soul some elbow room. -Denise Sharp
April 4, 2008 – Learn to pause… or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you. -Doug King
April 5, 208 – Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself. -Hermann Hesse
April 6, 2008 — The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories. -Og Mandino
April 7, 2008 – We become a part of the people we love, and they become a part of us. -Unknown
April 8, 2008 – Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals. -Mahatma Gandhi
April 9, 2008 – Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom and immortality. -Unknown
April 10, 2008 – Memory feeds imagination. -Amy Tan
April 11, 2008 – Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do. -Confucious
April 12, 2008 – Care is a verb. -Clara Billings
April 13, 2008 – Happiness improves with practice. -Don Ward
April 14, 2008 – Imagination is the preview of life’s coming attractions. -Larry Eisenberg
April 15, 2008 – Never postpone joy. -H. Jackson Brown
April 16, 2008 — No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy. -Bern Williams
April 17, 2008 – Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words? -Marcel Marceau
April 18, 2008 — There is no such thing as wasted affection. -B.J. Marshall
April 19, 2008 — You never know when you’re making a memory. -Rickie Lee Jones
April 20, 2008 — To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. -Henry David Thoreau
April 21, 2008 — Friends are kind to each other’s hopes. They cherish each other’s dreams. -Henry David Thoreau
April 22, 2008 — The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. -Joseph Campbell
April 23, 2008 — Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought. -Robert Browning
April 24, 2008 — A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. -Frank Capra
April 25, 2008 — Savor life’s tiny delights—a crackling fire, a glorious sunset, a hug from a child, a walk with a friend, a cup of soup, a kiss behind the ear. -John Anthony
April 26, 2008 – The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is giving your gift away. -David Viscott
April 27, 2008 – What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. -Henry Ward Beecher
April 28, 2008 – Person to person, moment to moment, as we love, we change the world. -Samahria Lyte Kaufman
April 29, 2008 — The next time your mind wanders, follow it around for a while. -Jessica Masterson
April 30, 2008 — Never lose your sense of wonder. -Joe Batten
May 1, 2008 — Live a balance life. Learn some and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. -Robert Fulghum
May 2, 2008 — There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to become a butterfly. -Buckminster Fuller
May 3, 2008 — Make visible what, without you, might perhaps have never been seen. -Robert Bresson
May 4, 2008 — Every day is a once-in-a-lifetime day. -Anonymous
May 5, 2008 — The human heart yearns for the beautiful. -Harriet Beecher Stowe
May 6, 2008 — Only the heart speaks to the heart. I needed to tell you my story as I need to hear yours, so that we may share our secrets and trust our hearts. -Judy Collins
May 7, 2008 — I’ve seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives. -Tracy Chapman
May 8, 2008 — The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. -Friedrich Nietzsche
May 9, 2008 — Remember to leave space in your relationships so the angels have room to play. -Unknown
May 10, 2008 — The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift. -Pierre Corneille
May 11, 2008 — Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. -Max Eastman
May 12, 2008 — If you laugh a lot, when you get older your wrinkles will be in the right places. -Andrew Mason
May 13, 2008 — If you’re already walking on thin ice, why not dance? -Gil Atkinson
May 14, 2008 — May happiness touch your life today as warmly as you have touched the lives of others. -Rebecca Forsythe
May 15, 2008 — The hours that make us happy make us wise. -John Masefield
May 16, 2008 — Some people add so much beauty to being human. -Kobi Yamada
May 17, 2008 — I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life. I was given life, that I might enjoy all things. -Unknown
May 18, 2008 — Look closely. The beautiful may be small. -Emmanuel Kant
May 19, 2008 — Where there is too much, something is missing. -Hasidic Saying
May 20, 2008 — I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each others dreams, we can be together all the time. -Hobbes (of Calvin and …)
May 21, 2008 — You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. -James A. Froude
May 22, 2008 — If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again. -Mary Beth Danielson
May 23, 2008 — First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. -Epictetus
May 24, 2008 — I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. -Helen Keller
May 25, 2008 — Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can. John Wesley
May 26, 2008 – “Friends are like a rare jewelry. They make you laugh and brings you spirit. They will listen if that you need, they support and open your heart. Show to your friend that you like them”
May 27, 2008 — “Communication is something easy. The hard part is to say it easily. - T.S. Matthews”
May 28, 2008 – “When you say something in anger, your word would leave a wound on someone heart. Like when you stick a knife to someone, then took away. No matter how many sorry you’ve said, the would will still exist. And wound because words are worst then wound by knife”
May 29, 2008 — “When you say something in anger, your word would leave a wound on someone heart. Like when you stick a knife to someone, then took away. No matter how many sorry you’ve said, the would will still exist. And wound because words are worst then wound by knife”
May 30, 2008 — “If you try to reason about love, you’ll lose your reason” - – Author:UnknownMay 31, 2008 — “Money can buy a fine dog…but only love can make him wag his tail.” Author:Unknown
June 1, 2008 –If Life gives you a lime, just rearrange the letters and turn it into a smile.
June 2, 2008 — Stretch your mind and fly. -African proverb
June 3, 2008 — Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons. -Ruth Ann Schabacker
June 4, 2008 — The hours that make us happy make us wise. -John Masefield
June 5, 2008 — Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!” ~Robin Williams
June 6, 2008 — How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young? ~Paul Sweeney
June 7, 2008 — Life is to be felt, not figured out. -Thomas Hardy
June 8, 2008 – Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue. ~Ambrose Bierce
June 9, 2008 — How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
~William Shakespeare, Othello, 1604
June 9, 2008 — Never frown, because you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile. -Carol O’Leary
June 10, 2008 — Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. ~Michel de Montaigne
June 11, 2008 — I have a heart with room for every joy. -P.J. Bailey
June 12, 2008 — What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. -Henry Ward Beecher
June 13, 2008 — Everything in life responds to the song of the heart. -E. Holmes
June 14, 2008 — If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family. ~Lawrence Housman
June 15, 2008 — My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass.” “We’re not raising grass,” Dad would reply. “We’re raising boys.” ~Harmon Killebrew
June 16, 2008 — Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
June 17, 2008 — It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
June 18, 2008 — Dad, you’re someone to look up to no matter how tall I’ve grown. ~Author Unknown
June 19, 2008 — When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Mark Twain, “Old Times on the Mississippi” Atlantic Monthly, 1874
June 20, 2008 — The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad! ~Author Unknown
June 21, 2008 –Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
June 22, 2008 — What you will do matters. All you need is to do it. -Judy Grahn
June 23, 2008 — Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other. ~Ed Howe
June 24, 2008 — People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one. ~Leo J. Burke
June 25, 2008 — A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on. ~Carl Sandburg
June 26, 2008 — Every baby needs a lap. ~Henry Robin
June 27, 2008 — You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. ~Jim Bouton, Ball Four, 1970
June 28, 2008 — If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there are men on base. ~Dave Barry
June 29, 2008 — I’m convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile. ~Tom Clark
June 30, 2008 — A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz. ~Humphrey Bogart
July 1, 2008 — The whole inspiration of our life as a nation flows out from the waving folds of this banner. ~Author Unknown
July 2, 2008 — I swing before your eyes as a bright gleam of color, a symbol of yourself, the pictured suggestion of that big thing which makes this nation. My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors. They are bright with cheer, brilliant with courage, firm with faith, because you have made them so out of your heart. For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making. ~Franklin Knight Lane
July 3, 2008 — He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself. ~Thomas Paine
July 4, 2008 — Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
July 5, 2008 — The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree. ~Thomas Campbell
July 6, 2008 –Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. ~Napoleon Bonaparte
