TOO OFTEN WE UNDERESTIMATE
THE POWER OF A TOUCH
A SMILE
A KIND WORD
A LISTENING EAR
AN HONEST COMPLIMENT
THE SMALLEST ACT OF CARING
ALL OF WHICH HAVE THE POTENTIAL
TO TURN A LIFE AROUND
leo buscaglia
Do not curse the darkness;
light a candle
Chinese Proverb
i love
Building forts in the living room with all of the blankets and pillows we can find,
weeping willows,
photography & filming,
sushi,
fine art (particularly pottery and glass),
ordering take-out,
lip smackers,
all-natural organic food,
playing guitar,
pretty ribbons,
crossword puzzles,
solitare,
solitude,
yard sales,
dancing,
hand-made cards,
contaigous laughter,
artichokes,
Nag Champa,
elephants,
walks around town,
hide and seek,
cotton candy,
cash in pockets when I'm doing laundry,
hiking,
camping,
french braids,
smoothies,
tobasco sauce,
looking at nose-pore strips after pulling them off,
Elmo's World and Cookie Monster,
finding turtles,
Lysol and Comet,
Subarus,
getting lost in the wilderness (just a little)...
wisteria,
Frosties,
netflix,
ballet,
root candles,
organizing clutter,
tie-dyes,
words like skalliwag and rubbish,
owls,
the Food Network,
garden tomatoes,
baby feet,
rainy days,
pomegranates,
Discovery Channel,
Scrabble,
History Channel,
spotting ladybugs,
watching the Olympics,
hot tea,
waterfalls,
linen scented air refreshers,
rubber gloves,
chapstick original,
prayer and meditation,
divine encounters with a n g e l s o n e a r t h ,
butterflies and caterpillars
spanish moss,
a good walking stick,
playing 'off the bed',
capers,
journaling,
cosmetics,
cosmos,
chasing my sons around the house,
seahorses,
lining my drawers with pretty scented paper,
clearance sales,
origami,
cooking and fine dining,
the ocean,
scrapbooking,
Swiffering,
catching lightening bugs,
sandlewood,
daddy longleggers,
jewelry (hand crafted especially),
pillow fights,
snuffing candles with a snuffer,
insoles,
pinky promises,
Trivial Pursuit with the fam,
oh, and I can't forget the abbreevs..(kitch, sitch, etc.)
Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime,
and in the night his song shall be with me,
and my prayer unto the God of my life.
Psalm 42:8
I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man.
Between Him and every other person in the world
there is no possible term of comparison.
Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne,
and I have founded empires.
But on what did we rest the creations of our genius?
Upon force.
Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love;
and at this hour millions of men would die for Him."
Napoleon Bonaparte
S I R * F R A N C I S * D I C K S E E
english victorian painter
Yseult
Romeo and Juliet
The Mirror
The End of the Quest
Sylvia
Two Crowns
Genres: Bluegrass, Classical, Gospel, Mix Tapes Bands: Bella Fleck and the Flecktones, Queen, Traveling Wilburies, The Polyphonic Spree, Indigo Girls, Bee Gees, Beatles, Newsboys, Third Day, Tree63 Artists: Mozart, Sinatra, Wilco, Fitzgerald, Misty Edwards, Nick Drake, Thomas Earl Petty, Scott Stapp, Keith Green, Rod Stewart Instruments:Bongos, Guitar, Flute, Piano, Tambourine, Trumpet, Mandolin, Violin, Stand-Up Bass
The beauty of a woman
is not in the clothes she wears,
The figure that she carries,
or the way she combs her hair.
The beauty of a woman
must be seen from within her eyes,
Because that is the doorway
to her heart,
the place where love resides.
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,
But true beauty in a woman
is reflected in her soul.
It is the caring that she lovingly gives,
the passion that she shows,
And the beauty of a woman
with passing years--only grows!
Maya Angelou
Gustave Caillebotte
The Yerres, Rain
1875
Oil on canvas
JULIET
Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day:
It was the nightingale, and not the lark,
That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear;
Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate-tree:
Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.
ROMEO
It was the lark, the herald of the morn,
No nightingale. Look, love, what envious streaks
Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east.
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
I love reading the classics and poetry,
anything spiritual and uplifting,
encouraging and informative.
Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.
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I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
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I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
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I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
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Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
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Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
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Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
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We, the unwilling,led by the unknowing,are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much,for so long,with so little,we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
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Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
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Mother Theresa
The Soul unfolds itself,
like a lotus
of countless petals.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet
Gregory Colbert
Giuseppe de Nittis
Return From The Ball
1870
Enchanted forest entrance