“He who sings frightens away his ills.” Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.” Leonardo da Vinci

“Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes” Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.” Stephen R. Covey

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. ~Christopher Morley

"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior." - Hippolyte Taine

“Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask for the name of your dressmaker.” ~ Lilly Dache

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

Children are our immortality; in them we see the story of our life rewritten in a fairer hand. ~ Alfred North Whitehead

"Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother."
-- Lin Yutang

A brother is a friend given by Nature. ~ Ernest Legouve

“For he who has no tranquility there is no concentration.” ~ Bhagavad Gita

“Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.” Emily Dickinson

“A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.”~ Carl Sandburg

Vision is the true creative rhythm. ~ Robert Delaunay

“Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.” Larry Bird

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.--May Sarton

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

"There are no speed limits on the road to excellence." ~ Unknown

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. - Helen Keller

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear." Mark Twain

"I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile." ~ Thomas Campbell Clark

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tomboy

"Tomboy. Alright, call me a tomboy. Tomboys get gold medals, tomboys can fly, and oh yeah, tomboys aren't boys." ~ Julie Foudy

Imperfection

“Sometimes we strive so hard for perfection that we forget that imperfection is happiness” Karen Nave

Reflecting Myself

“Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people .” Albert Einstein

Thirteen

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. ~Stacia Tauscher

Breakfast at Dawn

"There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man." ~Winston Churchill

Repetitive Motion

“Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.” - Soren Kierkegaard