You are Your Words

If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.Life is a long lesson in humility.The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. Every why hath a wherefore. Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. You create your opportunities by asking for them. THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities. The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless. I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk. Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.' What you risk reveals what you value.Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. I'm of the mind that even people who have

What a great way to start a day with inspiration. I found YouAreYourWords that inspired me to create with words. All you need is a picture that inspires you, or even one of yourself. Inspirational wording and with one click you get an inspirational quotable picture of yourself or loved one. If the words fail you, don't worry about that QuoteGarden has enough inspirational quotes and sayings to make sure that you are not at a loss for words. What's great about this is you can either share via facebook or twitter.

Quotes and sayings always inspire me when I'm not feeling myself. When you're "down" and inspiring uplifting quote always inspires me to be "up". Nothing says it quote like a quote.
 
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles.  It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.  
~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.  
~Douglas Pagels

Do I love you because you're beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?
~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella
 
Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night. 
~Terri Guillemets 

Here's my venture into the inspirational world of words.

I used all my favorite quotes to make the pictures above. These are not quotes from QuoteGarden as they are quotes that I have collected over the years that inspire me.

limitations, if they have a curiosity, they will find a way to explore it.Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering. Mistakes are the portals of discovery.Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action. Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune Without the words and never stops at all. Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That's the lesson. That lesson alone, will save you a lot of grief. Even doubt means don't. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you  If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.Life is a long lesson in humility.The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. Every why hath a wherefore. Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. You create your opportunities by asking for them. THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities. The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless. I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk. Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.' What you risk reveals what you value.Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. I'm of the mind that even people who have limitations, if they have a curiosity, they will find a way to explore it.Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering. Mistakes are the portals of discovery.Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action. Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune Without the words and never stops at all. Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That's the lesson. That lesson alone, will save you a lot of grief. Even doubt means don't. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. Everything you can imagine is real. Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. In adversity remember to keep an even mind. If I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle. Feeling special is the worst kind of cage a person can build for himself. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.If you stop dreaming, you're just sleeping. Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.