“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” Our Deepest Fear from A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles Marianne Williamson

He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.  St. Francis of Assisi

"Dream as if you will live forever, live as if you will die today." James Dean

Every good painter paints what he is. Jackson Pollock

So I said to myself-I'll paint what I see-what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking the time to look at it-I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers. I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way--things I had no words for. Georgia O'Keefe

Trying to make money from art is like trying to make money from love. Either way you end up faking it. Draloo Arts, Inc.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he (she) grows up. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

"...There's comfort in melencholy when there's no need to explain, it's just as natural as the weather in this moody sky today..." Joni Mitchell

"Life is what happens to you when your busy making other plans" "A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality." John Lennon

"I know nothing with any certainty but the sight of stars makes me dream." Vincent Van Gogh

+ Figuring out our gifts in life is part of our journey to becoming enlightened human beings. + I am determined to always retain my mischievous inner youth. + Death is funny in that it brings out the best and worst in people. It casts light on the truth and makes life blindingly clear.  + Being able to relate to or think about the unknown is half the battle of expanding your spiritual beliefs. Having the opportunity to experience it personally is the other half. + I have often wished that someone would come up with a better word than "psychic" to describe people like me. Between all the con artists out there and the gypsy and witch stereotypes, the word has been forever tainted. Call it what you want; I have what I refer to as the gift. + I felt very connected to a higher power and I was sensitive to others' feelings about it. But it seemed that all the adults at church sang about one thing and then practiced another. Allison DuBois

• This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when noone else recognizes that it is present. • The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. • When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities. Deepak Chopra

I'm pretty, but I'm not beautiful. I Sin but I'm not the devil. I'm good, but I'm not an angel. Marilyn Monroe

"...out of traction...back in action!" Patti Smith

"...I laugh at the things that I've done when I tried to die young..I took a plane through the dawn threw myself on the tracks but the train didn't come and I had to walk back. I jumped into a whirlpool thought I'd get sucked in, I just kept spinning around 'till I learned how to swim." Melanie Safka

In the end what matters most is How well did you live How well did you love How well did you learn to let go. Unknown

"You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'" George Bernard Shaw

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." Maya Angelou

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." Elizabeth Kubler Ross

"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts." Booker T. Washington

"Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too." Robert Half

"Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women." Groucho Marx

"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down." Arnold H. Glasgow

"I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true." Katherine Hepburn

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." Zig Ziglar

+ I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude toward others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect. 14th Dalai Lama

+ I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose. They should draw the line at goats though. Elton John