By the River

If you're going to live by the river, make friends with the crocodile. ~Indian Proverb

Following the Bend

The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.
~Eartha Kitt

Be A Channel

If you dam a river it stagnates. Running water is beautiful water. So be a channel. ~English Proverb

Soothing and Energizing

I look down over the river, which is soothing and energizing at the same time. ~Jeanette Winterson

Belief

Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.
~William Stafford

Our Love

Our love is like the misty rain that falls softly, but floods the river. ~African Proverb

Old Age

Old age is no place for sissies. ~Bette Davis

Be Young

I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.
~Pablo Casals

Nothing You Can Do

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. ~Golda Meir

Age Is...

Age is…wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.
~Miriam Makeba

Wrinkles

I've only got one wrinkle and I'm sitting on it. ~Jeanne Calment

Getting Older

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries. ~Bill Cosby

Old Persons

Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations. ~George Santayana

Book of Life

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
~Charlie Brown

p.s. Baja bound and may or may not post next week....Enjoy!

Sound Smart

People talk loud when they want to sound smart, right? ~Squidward

Venture Out

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
~Winnie The Pooh

In A Cave

I work hard all day, too, and what do I get? A lot of yak from you. You at least get out everyday, see things, talk to people. I never get out of this cave. ~Wilma Flinstone

Too Serious

Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive.
~Bugs Bunny

Lying

Lying is done with words and also with silence. ~Adrienne Rich

Created In Love

The whole Universe is made of love, every atom, every fiber, every cell, it is all a creation of love, created in love, and very few experience this. Those who do, experience who they truly are. ~Mirabai

Face Fear

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Anywhere

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
~Langston Hughes

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