MONICA PIPER

Juries scare me. I don't want to put my faith in twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.


Today at John's Gallery - five paintings by Hans Gude
http://johnsgallery.blogspot.com

Buddhist Saying

Do not speak, unless it improves on silence.

CARL JUNG

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

MARCUS AURELIUS

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

HELEN KELLER

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.


now online - "Let's hear that song again" - music from the 1930s
http://letshearthatsongagain.blogspot.com

ANON

A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

WASHINGTON IRVING

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.


A second series begins today at JOHN'S GALLERY with five paintings by Sir Edwin Landseer including "Monarch of the Glen" - http://johnsgallery.blogspot.com

OSHO

Meditation is not against action.
It is not that you have to escape from life.
It simply teaches you a new way of life,
keeping yourself centred in whatever you do.

HEDA BEJAR

The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.

BUDDHA

Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike. Each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.

THOMAS EDISON

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

DIOGENES

It was a favourite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

Chinese Proverb

You cannot prevent the bird of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent it from building a nest in your hair.

ISAAC ASIMOV

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It is the transition that is troublesome.

LEO TOLSTOY

Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself.

GILDA RADNER

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

BARON de MONTESQUIEU

Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.

PETER T. McINTYRE

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

DAVID FROST

Don’t aim for success if you want it - just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

KAHLIL GIBRAN

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

RUSSELL LYNES

The only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it. If you can't ignore it, top it. If you can't top it, laugh at it. If you can't laugh at it, it's probably been deserved.

BYRD BAGGETT

Look at life through the windscreen, not the rear-view mirror.

SOPHOCLES

Kindness will always attract kindness.

HENRY FORD

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking

ANON

Every day must come to you as -
a new hope
a new promise
a new aspiration
a new energy
a new thrill
a new delight

PEARL S. BUCK

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it generation after generation.

HORACE

Seize the day! Put no trust in the morrow.

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't have many rivals.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. (The Merchant of Venice)