“When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.” ~ Pablo Picasso
Today’s Quote ~ You’ve Got What It Takes!
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. ~ Henry David Thoreau
What lives within you?
Today’s Quote: It’s Never Easy – Don’t Quit
“Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.” ~ Aisha Tyler
To Sleep ~ John Keats
To Sleep
John Keats
O soft embalmer of the still midnight,
Shutting, with careful fingers and benign,
Our gloom-pleas’d eyes, embower’d from the light,
Enshaded in forgetfulness divine:
O soothest Sleep! if so it please thee, close
In midst of this thine hymn my willing eyes,
Or wait the “Amen,” ere thy poppy throws
Around my bed its lulling charities.
Then save me, or the passed day will shine
Upon my pillow, breeding many woes,–
Save me from curious Conscience, that still lords
Its strength for darkness, burrowing like a mole;
Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards,
And seal the hushed Casket of my Soul.
Writers’ Wisdom: Listen to Your Heart
“When I told my teachers I wanted to be a writer, alot of them encouraged me to lower my expectations and to be more realistic. So I rode away on my magical, winged horse, spraying faerie dust behind me, and laughing manically as I went.” ~ M.E. Vaughan
Today’s Reflection: Believe in Yourself
Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. ~ Maxwell Maltz
Today’s Reflection: Growing Old?
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Dreams ~ Langston Hughes
Dreams
Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
Today’s Reflection: Refuse to Quit
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. ~ Margaret Mead