Cats

"No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch."

- Leo Dworken

Sunshine

"It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails."

- Romain Rolland, French novelist

Discovery

"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.  What you'll discover will be wonderful.  What you'll discover will be yourself."

~ Alan Alda

Overheard - 3

Overheard in the mall yesterday:

"You always say that sometimes."

Which is it - always or sometimes?  ???

Opportunity

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

- Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor

Retirement

How wonderful it is to do nothing and rest afterwards.

- Spanish Proverb

Normal

Masquerading as a normal person day after day is exhausting.

- Anonymous

Testing QR Code

Scanning the picture below with a QR Reader app should take you to my main Blog, Gypsy Gold Studio.

Predictable

"Even the predictable turns into surprise the moment we stop taking it for granted."

- Br. David Steidl-Rast

Art

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."

- Thomas Merton, Poet
(1915-1968)

Closed Doors

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

What We DO Have

"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have"

— Frederick Keonig

Angels

Most people don't know that there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable and fall asleep and miss your life.

- Unknown

Winter is an etching...spring a watercolor...
summer an oil painting...
and autumn...a mosaic of them all."

- Stanley Horowitz

Insanity

"Insanity":  Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

- Albert Einstein

Grass

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf."

- Tug McGraw, Professional Baseball player, on being asked if he preferred grass to Astroturf

My Parents

"I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father."

- Greg Norman, Professional Golfer

Strength

Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles.  It empties today of its strength.

Butterflies

"Butterflies add another dimension to the garden, for they are like dream flowers- childhood dreams- which have broken loose from their stalks and escaped into the sunshine"

- M. Rothchild

Attitude

"Attitude is important. Pick a good one."

 - Unknown