Barriers

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
~Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Mistakes

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts. ~Nikki Giovanni

Garden Spade

All my hurts my garden spade can heal. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weeds

No garden is without its weeds. ~Thomas Fuller

A Garden

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. ~May Sarton

May Day

Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.
~The Koran

To Flowers

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ~Claude Monet

Spirit and Art

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.
~Leonardo da Vinci

Their Own Eyes

The viewer has a mind of their own and eyes of their own and they're going to see it their way, I just hope they look.
~Faith Ringgold

Slow Comprehension

Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension. ~Joan Miro

My Own Reality

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
~Frida Kahlo

Way of Living

There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it. ~Henry Moore

Writing and Performing

Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform. ~bell hooks

Writing

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. ~Ernest Hemingway

Writing Craft

Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.
~Katherine Anne Porter

Reviews

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. ~Kurt Vonnegut

Young Writers

Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Balance

Balance does not mean merely balancing the body. Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life. In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present - the here and now. ~B.K.S. Iyengar

Sit There

Don’t just do something. Sit there. ~Sylvia Boorstein

Values

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
~Dalai Lama

Compassion

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy. ~Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Gloriousness and Wretchedness

Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us. ~Pema Chödrön

Make A Difference

Any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don't, then you are wasting your time on Earth. ~Roberto Clemente

Discrimination

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all. ~Lou Gehrig

Make Them Hit It

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it. ~Sandy Koufax

Excel

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this. ~Willie Mays

Hank Aaron

Trying to throw a fastball by Henry (Hank) Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster. ~Curt Simmons

Opening Day!

There are only two seasons -- winter and Baseball. ~Bill Veeck

Liberation

The liberation of women is above all based on their capacity to think their own problems through and to link them to the total progress of the society and the world in which they live, to their capacity to develop a political and cultural consciousness. ~Nawal El Saadawi

Faith

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope. ~Corazon Aquino

Privilege

The privilege of a higher education, especially outside Africa, broadened my original horizon and encouraged me to focus on the environment, women and development in order to improve the quality of life of people in my country in particular and in the African region in general. ~Wangari Maathai

Powerlessness

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many. ~Maggie Kuhn

Change

I change myself, I change the world. ~Gloria Anzaldua

Its Soul

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul. ~Coretta Scott King

Strength

If it is true that men are better than women because they are stronger, why aren't our sumo wrestlers in the government? ~Kishida Toshiko

Spring

The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness. ~Therese of Lisieux

Womanhood

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women. ~Elizabeth Blackwell

Opportunities

...I want to say to every Negro woman present, don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them! ~Madam C.J. Walker

Unstoppable

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable. ~Grace Slick

Opinions

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it? ~Joan Baez

Blues

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable. ~Janis Joplin

Everything I've Learned

Everything I've learned in life I've learned either by doing it or by watching the changes other people go through. ~Cass Elliot

Freedoms

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms. ~Joni Mitchell

Dreams

If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep. ~Yiddish Proverb

Unite

Unite to move forward. ~Hawaiian Proverb

Egotism

Egotism is an alphabet of one letter. ~Scottish Saying

Teach

He who learns, teaches. ~African Proverb

Wealth

May your charity increase as much as your wealth. ~Eskimo Saying

Escaping

When I was a teenager, I dreamed about escaping. I was lucky. I succeeded. ~Laurie Anderson

Privacy and Security

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary. ~Margaret Cho