Wednesday's Inspiration

 

"There are times to stay put, and what you want

will come to you, then there are times to go out into

the world and find such a thing for yourself."

-Lemony Snicket

Tuesday's Inspiration

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                            "For us, there is only the trying.

The rest is not our business."

-T. S. Eliot

Monday's Inspiration

 

"Good instincts usually tell us what to do

long before your head has figured it out."

-Michael Burke

Weekend's Inspiration

 

"Joy is the best makeup."

-Anne Lamott

Friday's Inspiration

 

"The highest form of wisdom is kindness."

-The Talmud

Thursday's Inspiration

 

"Life is just a chance to grow a soul."

-A. Powell Davies

Wednesday's Inspiration

 

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the

attainment. Full effort is full victory."

-Mahatma Gandhi

Tuesday's Inspiration

"If you have zest and enthusiasm,

you attract zest and enthusiasm.

Life does give back in kind."

-Norman Vincent Peale

Monday's Inspiration

 

"The road of life twists and turns and no two

directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons

come from the journey. not the destination."

-Don Williams Jr.

Weekend Inspiration

 

"Mistakes are part of the dues

one pays for a full life."

-Sophia Loren

Friday Inspiration

"Be who you are in every situation."

-Michael Johnson

Wednesday Inspiration

 

"I may not be totally perfect,

but parts of me are excellent."

-Ashleigh Brilliant

Tuesday Inspiration

 

"The greatest part of happiness depends on

our dispositions, not our circumstances."

-Martha Washington

Monday Inspiration

"To succeed, we must first believe that we can."

-Michael Korda

Weekend Inspiration

"Anyone who lives within their means

suffers from a lack of imagination."

-Oscar Wilde

Friday Inspiration

"It is not in the stars to hold our

destiny but in ourselves."

-William Shakespeare

Thursday Inspiration

"You will never be happy if you continue to

search for what happiness consists of. You will never

live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

-Albert Camus

Wednesday Inspirations

"Laughter is an instant vacation."

-Milton Berle

Tuesday Inspiration

 

"Action may not always bring happiness;

but there is no happiness without action."

-Benjamin Disareli

Monday Inspiration

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come.

We have only today. Let us begin."

-Mother Teresa

Weekend Inspiration

"Accept challenges, so that you may

feel the exhilaration of victory."

-George S. Patton

Friday Inspiration

"Happiness is not a destination.

It is a method of life."

-Burton Hills

Thursday Inspiration

 

"Sex appeal is fifty percent of what you've got and

fifty percent of what people think you've got."

-Sophia Loren

Wednesday Inspiration

 

"Believe there is a greater power silently

working for all things for good, behave yourself

and never mind the rest."

-Beatrix Potter

Tuesday Inspiration

 

"He enjoys true leisure who has

time to improve his soul's estate."

-Henry David Thoreau

Monday Inspiration

"Nobody really cares if you're miserable,

so you might as well be happy."

-Cynthia Nelms

Weekend Inspiration

"Failure is impossible."

-Susan B. Anthony

Friday Inspiration

 

"The place to improve the world is first

in one's own heart and head and hands,

and then work outward from there."

-Robert M. Pirsig

Thursday Inspiration

"A woman's dress should be like a

barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose

without obstructing the view."

-Sophia Loren 

Wednesday Inspiration

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

-Confucius

Tuesday Inspiration

 

"As we grow as unique persons, we learn

to respect the uniqueness of others."

-Robert H. Schuller

Monday Inspiration

 

"We have to learn to be our own best friends

because we fall to easily into the trap of

being our own worst enemies."

-Roderick Thorp

Weekend Inspiration

 

"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity.

Another man's, I mean."

-Mark Twain

Friday Inspiration

 

"There  is no need to go to India or anywhere else to

find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right

in your room, your garden or even your bathtub."

-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Thursday Inspiration

"Love the moment, and the energy of that

moment will spread beyond all boundaries."

-Sister Corita Kent

Wednesday Inspiration

 

"If you care about something you have to protect it.

If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love,

you have to find the courage to live it."

-John Irving

Tuesday Inspiration

 

"Think of all the beauty still left

around you and be happy."

-Anne Frank

Monday Inspiration

"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight."

-Anonymous

Weekend Inspiration

"Don't be afraid to take a big step.

You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."

-David Lloyd George

Friday Inspiration

This is a mosaic sculpture of a turtle that was planted by my partner. To give you an idea of the size of this it is about 40 feet long from the tip of the head to the tip of the tail.

 

"The road to success is always under construction."

-Lily Tomlin

Thursday Inspiration

 

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness,

and nothing is so gentle as true strength'"

-St. Francis de Sales 

Wednesday Inspiration

 

"To act is to affirm the worth of an end."

-Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Tuesday Inspiration

 

"Let us be grateful to people who make us

happy; they are the charming gardeners

who make our souls blossom."

-Marcel Proust 

Happy International Tatting Day

Happy International Tatting Day to all my fellow tatters and tatting lovers. In celebration I thought I would post a couple of my favorite tatting projects that I have personally made.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"All we need to make us really happy is

something to be enthusiastic about."

-Charles Kingsley