Tending to Love

Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. ~Ursula K. Le Guin

A Happy and Safe New Year's Eve to All! ~GZ

Character

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. ~Abigail Van Buren

Gerald R. Ford

The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time? ~Gerald R. Ford

Godfather of Soul

I hope you live 200 years, and that I live 200 years minus one day, so I never know beautiful people like you passed away.
~James Brown

Winter Hope

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happy Holidays to All! ~GZ

Dance is for Everybody

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people. ~Alvin Ailey

Hunger

A hungry man is not a free man. ~Adlai Stevenson

Windstorm

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. ~Willa Cather

Footnote: This is a tree that fell outside my office during the PNW Storm that hit late Dec. 14th. I was one of the lucky ones who had power. Many people I know are still without it.

Be Understanding

Be understanding of one another. Be willing to compromise. ~Yoko Ono

Fragile

The beast in me is caged by frail and fragile bars. ~Johnny Cash

Improvisation

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts. ~Ken Burns

Poor Sex Life?

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds. ~Joan Rivers

War - a Winner?

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. ~Agatha Christie

Marriage Brimming

To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
~Ogden Nash

His name is 'Today'

We are guilty of many errors and many faults but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer 'Tomorrow.' His name is 'Today’. ~Gabriela Mistral

Hammering

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. ~Abraham Maslow

Speak Your Mind

Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them. ~Afrika Bambaataa

Loving

When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one. ~Leonard P. Matlovich

Asunder

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. ~Virginia Woolf

Put into Practice

Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does not put them into practice. ~Buddha

Freedom

Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go. ~Hazel Scott

Writing

When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence. ~Gao Xingjian

Have We Made It?

When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it. ~Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Find Your Place

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. ~Gary Snyder

Wise One

Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, "I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice? ~Bette Midler

Thanksgiving

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ~Irv Kupcinet

A Gift

When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it. ~Yo-Yo Ma

Friendship

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
~Katherine Mansfield

If it happens....

If it happens, it happens... We can't stop living ~Walter Reed

Roots and Wings

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings. ~Hodding Carter

Waste

You can tell how high a society is by how much of its garbage is recycled. ~Dhyani Ywahoo

Sincerity

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere. ~John Coltrane

Overcome

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. ~Helen Keller

Brood

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever. ~Leo Buscaglia

Real Facts

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts. ~Abraham Lincoln

Agreeing

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds. ~Frank Zappa

Vote

Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process. ~Hillary Clinton

Forgiveness

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Cleaning House

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
~Phyllis Diller

Right

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
~Jane Austen

Peace and Ease

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees. ~Benjamin Franklin

Mistakes

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. ~Al Franken

Change

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
~Nelson Mandela

As I Am

When I began as a model, everybody tried to remold me: I was too fat, too little, they tried to re-shape my teeth - I am very proud that I have stayed as I was. ~Laetitia Casta

Hearts

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things. ~Felicia Hemans

Art For Art's Sake

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
~Frank Lloyd Wright

Bold Attempt

A bold attempt is half success. ~Danish Saying

Motherhood

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ~Meryl Streep

Eventually

…so castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.
~Jimi Hendrix

Smile

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. ~Phyllis Diller