Happy VALENTINE'S week. Let's spread some love - with a smile :)
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."
- Oscar Wilde
"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."
- Martin Luther King
"Where there is love there is life."
- Mahatma Gandhi
The Universe Is Smiling: "Comfort"
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Enjoy the comfort of friendship - with a smile :)
"There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love."
- Author unknown
"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief, and confort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing."
- Katherine Mansfield
A: Enjoy the comfort of friendship - with a smile :)
"There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love."
- Author unknown
"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief, and confort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing."
- Katherine Mansfield
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comfort,
creature,
friend,
Katherine Mansfield,
rabbit
The Universe Is Smiling: "Spirit Animals"
Welcome to the Chinese New Year of the Wood Horse. In the spirit of the changing years and the changing animals, may I ask, what is your spirit animal, your power animal? Here are some power animals to get you into the right spirit with some quotes about "power" and "spirit" :)
"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."
- Epictetus
"Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time."
- C.S. Lewis
"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."
- Epictetus
"Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time."
- C.S. Lewis
The Universe Is Smiling: "Stretch Yourself"
"Let's get out of the winter doldrums," says the bear, "let's stretch."
"If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health."
- Hippocrates
"Every day you make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."
- Winston Churchill
"If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health."
- Hippocrates
"Every day you make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."
- Winston Churchill
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bear,
CHURCHILL,
exercise,
HIPPOCRATES,
stretching,
yoga
The Universe Is Smiling & Asking for Your Participation
This week's drawing doesn't have a theme nor a quote. I want YOU to find a title for the drawing & a matching quote.
The 1. winner will get a print of the drawing mounted on a 6"x6"x2' hand painted woodblock, with YOUR winning title & quote on the back panel.
The 2. winner will get a print of this drawing (6" x 6").
The contest will end February 13th.
Have fun, feel inspired and let your creative juices flow - with a smile :)
Send me an email with your suggestions.
The 1. winner will get a print of the drawing mounted on a 6"x6"x2' hand painted woodblock, with YOUR winning title & quote on the back panel.
The 2. winner will get a print of this drawing (6" x 6").
The contest will end February 13th.
Have fun, feel inspired and let your creative juices flow - with a smile :)
Send me an email with your suggestions.
Labels:
cat,
FRANCIS BACON,
heart,
sky
The Universe Is Smiling: "Make a wish!"
Dear Visitors from across the planet,
Thank you for frequenting this site last year. Going forward, today's drawing suggests that you make a wish for the New Year for yourself.
---- take your time ----
My wish for you is: May this year bring you health, prosperity, joy, strength, and the humor needed to overcome any challenges with a sense of ease!
Keep smiling :)
"Write it on your heart that eery day is the best day in the year."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right."
- Oprah Winfrey
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Thank you for frequenting this site last year. Going forward, today's drawing suggests that you make a wish for the New Year for yourself.
---- take your time ----
My wish for you is: May this year bring you health, prosperity, joy, strength, and the humor needed to overcome any challenges with a sense of ease!
Keep smiling :)
"Write it on your heart that eery day is the best day in the year."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right."
- Oprah Winfrey
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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chicken,
dreams,
EMERSON,
heart,
leaf,
new year,
Oprah Winfrey,
past present future,
ROOSEVELT
The Universe Is Smiling: "Evolution"
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: We are on the path of evolution - let's make it a gentle and creative journey, one small turtle step at a time.
"The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives to others as it transforms."
- Lao Tzu
"The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it doesn't know how to use."
- Arthur Koestler
A: We are on the path of evolution - let's make it a gentle and creative journey, one small turtle step at a time.
"The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives to others as it transforms."
- Lao Tzu
"The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it doesn't know how to use."
- Arthur Koestler
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ARTHUR KOESTLER,
evolution,
Lao Tzu,
transformation,
turtle
The Universe Is Smiling: "Play"
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Don't hesitate to play :)
"Life is a song - sing it.
Life is a game - play it.
Life is a challenge - meet it.
Life is a dream - realize it.
Life is a sacrifice - offer it.
Life is love - enjoy it."
- Sai Baba
"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it."
- Charlie Chaplin
A: Don't hesitate to play :)
"Life is a song - sing it.
Life is a game - play it.
Life is a challenge - meet it.
Life is a dream - realize it.
Life is a sacrifice - offer it.
Life is love - enjoy it."
- Sai Baba
"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it."
- Charlie Chaplin
Labels:
CHARLIE CHAPLIN,
Friedrich Nietzsche,
life,
playful,
SAI BABA,
sheep
The Universe Is Smiling: "Companions"
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Pick a good companion and enjoy the time together.
"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
- Saint Augustine
"If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere."
- Loretta Young
A: Pick a good companion and enjoy the time together.
"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
- Saint Augustine
"If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere."
- Loretta Young
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bird,
companion,
life,
LORETTA YOUNG,
owl,
ST. AUGUSTINE,
travel
The Universe Is Smiling: "Reflection"
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Take time out to relax and reflect.
"If you use your mind to try and understand reality, you will understand neither your mind nor reality.
If you try and understand reality without using your mind, you will understand both your mind and reality."
- Bodhidharma
A: Take time out to relax and reflect.
"If you use your mind to try and understand reality, you will understand neither your mind nor reality.
If you try and understand reality without using your mind, you will understand both your mind and reality."
- Bodhidharma
Labels:
BODHIDHARMA,
mind,
mouse,
pillow,
reality,
reflection
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