A Warm Sunny Smile

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles.  It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.  ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You

If you don't have a smile, I'll give you one of mine.  ~Author Unknown

I have a tickle in my brain.  And it keeps making the corners of my mouth point toward the heavens.  ~Jeb Dickerson

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.  ~Mother Teresa

Captivating

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...  ~Susan Polis Shutz 

"You belong among the wildflowers
You belong in a boat out at sea
You belong with your love on your arm
You belong somewhere you feel free."
-Tom Petty, "Wildflowers"

"It's a Cupcake Kinda Day" - Author Unknown

I Miss You

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.  It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.  We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.  ~Albert Schweitzer

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.  "Pooh!" he whispered.  "Yes, Piglet?"  "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw.  "I just wanted to be sure of you."  ~A.A. Milne

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.  ~Dinah Craik

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.  ~Grace Pulpit

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had.  ~Author Unknown

Childhood

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.  ~Mencius, Book IV


I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.  ~Bob Seger, "Against the Wind"

The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.  ~Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

The Journey

~ Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. ~Arthur Ashe

~ The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.     ~Theresa of Avila

~ Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. ~Greg Anderson

~ Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be...Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before. ~Erich Fromm

Little Artist

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.  ~Twyla Tharp
Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.  ~Pablo Picasso

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.  ~Schumann

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.  ~Charles Horton Cooley
The artist's world is limitless.  It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away.  It is always on his doorstep.  ~Paul Strand

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.  ~Wynetka Ann Reynolds

Selah

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.  ~St. Augustine

If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines.  ~Robert Brault

"We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie."  -John Eldredge

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.  ~John Muir

Huggzies

I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.   -Shel Silverstein

They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.     -Bill Keane

A hug is a great gift - one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange.  ~Author Unknown
Hugs grease the wheels of the world.  ~Author Unknown

Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words.  ~Author Unknown

Two-Nique

You know those things about  yourself that you are self conscious of? Those quirks that you are trying to hide? those are not your weaknesses, those are your strengths. Terry Border

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."

Anthony J.D’Angelo 

“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.”

At the Waters Edge

 “Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.”  -Alan Alda

"As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me."  -Henri Frederic Amiel

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems."    -Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy