Happy Valentine's Day.
hearts from Paper Source
Wishing you and yours much love, appreciation, gratitude, and passion today.
The AEzine will be taking a break for the next couple of weeks so I can put all my energy & creativity into the book I am currently working on. If you need a litte reading material for today, check out these quotes that have been inspiring me - some you may have seen me post before, others may be new:
Rumi : Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. (found on the blog Creative Stumblings)
Henry Miller : Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him(/her) who has the vision to recognize it as such.
Anna Quindlen : ...but the biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this. I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of the three on them sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages 6, 4, and 1. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in a hurry to get on to the next things: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less.
Pablo Casals : Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michaelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.
Mother Teresa : It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.
Og Mandino : I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.
I'll miss the AEzine but understand. Can't wait for the new book!
I can see from the picture at the top that you got your eye for photography from your dad.
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I'll miss the AEzine but understand. Can't wait for the new book!
I can see from the picture at the top that you got your eye for photography from your dad.
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Hi Ali;
Thank you for the quotes and love your new header, Simon looks like he is having a wonderful time. Love your valentines.
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I love the quote ali! By the way...CONGRATS on all of the donations! I see that your badge is #1 on sixdegrees!!!! Go Simon!
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http://jodigoins.wordpress.com/files/2007/02/joy-one-week.jpg Here is a page I did from a challenge (9 squares) in your book. Not a real clear scan but I'm proud of my page. It's the first challenge LO I've ever done. Thanks!
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Thanks for the quotes, especially the Og Mandino. In your "spare time" :-), you might want to check out a great little book of his, called "The Greatest Miracle in the World." It ends with "The God Memorandum," which will wow you.
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Hey Ali
Didn't know you were a paper source fan, I'm additcted.
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these are all great...oh how mother theresa just cuts right to the heart of things...god bless her & her memory...
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Wishing you all the best in getting your book together!
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Wow - the quote from Pablo Casals really spoke to me. Thanks for sharing
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Ali, I am trying to find out where the quote by Anna Quindlen came from. I have read all of her fiction and have given more copies of "Short Guide to a Happy Life" away than I can count, and I really liked this quote and wonder what book of hers it is from. If you could drop me a quick e-mail with that, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.
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Wonderful quotes- thank you!
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