KIMBERLY HOWARD

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

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MUSIC HAS CHARMS
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LEONARD L. LEVINSON

A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.

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BUDDHA

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

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JOHN DRYDEN

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

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YOKO ONO

Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.

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If you look deep enough you will see music;
the heart of nature being everywhere music. (Thomas Carlyle)
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JOHN WOODEN

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

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Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you,
following you right on up until you die. (Paul Simon)
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Indian Saying

Every time you wake up, ask yourself, "What good things am I going to do today?" Remember that, when the sun goes down at sunset, it will take a part of your life with it.

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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. (Billy Joel)

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H. JACKSON BROWNE

Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.

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Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind,
flight to the imagination and life to everything. (Plato)
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Whatever you are, be a good one.

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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
(Victor Hugo)
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MARIE CURIE

Nothing in life is to be feared - it is only to be understood.

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Without music, life would be a mistake (Friedrich Nietzsche)
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NEIL SIMON

If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

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I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to (Elvis Presley)
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ANON

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

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DAVID MATTHEW

No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away.

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MARK TWAIN

The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.

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MUSIC HAS CHARMS
an ongoing collection of popular classics
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GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

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MUSIC HAS CHARMS
an ongoing collection of popular classics
http://musichascharms.blogspot.com

SHEL SILVERSTEIN

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts.
Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts.
Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me,
Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

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HUGH MACLEOD

Anyone can be an idealist; anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle - being human.

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MAURICE SETTER

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

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ANON

One can value a house to the last penny, but none can value a home.

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MAE WEST

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

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RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

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ROBYN ALLEN

Many of us are afraid to follow our passions, to pursue what we want most because it means taking risks and even facing failure. But to pursue your passion with all your heart and soul is success in itself. The greatest failure is to have never really tried.

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VIRGIL

They can conquer who believe they can.

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DALE CARNEGIE

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

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A verse from Sweden

Fear less, hope more.

Whine less, breathe more.
Talk less, say more.
Hate less, love more,
And all good things are yours.


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EMMA GOLDMAN

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

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ALAN COHEN

Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.

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ROBERT MULLER

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.

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GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes.

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LILY TOMLIN

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realise I should have been more specific.

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THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Do what you can with what you have where you are.

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EPICTETUS

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

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BILL COSBY

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

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CHERIE CARTER-SCOTT

Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.

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Chinese Proverb

Know thyself to know others, for heart beats like heart.

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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

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Now online
THE PAINTINGS OF ALMA-TADEMA
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GEORGE BURNS

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

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ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

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REMEZ SASSON

The difference between can and cannot is only three letters. Three letters that can shape your life's direction.

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OVID

If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.

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ANON

Life without purpose is barren indeed
There can't be a harvest unless you plant seed

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EARL GREY STEVENS

Confidence never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.

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HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

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THOMAS EDISON

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work.

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JAMES DENT

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.

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ALBERT EINSTEIN

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it’s the only means.

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MARGARET THATCHER

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

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WILLIAM DAVIS

The kind of humour I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.

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ISAAC ASIMOV

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

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An Irish Blessing

May your joys be as bright as the morning, and your sorrows merely be shadows that fade in the sunlight of love. May you have enough happiness to keep you sweet, enough trials to keep you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to keep you happy.

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JIM HENSON

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

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MARY ANNE RADMACHER

May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

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MARCUS AURELIUS

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

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MAHATMA GANDHI

The future depends on what we do in the present.

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MARK TWAIN

Humour is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

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ANON

Watch your thoughts, they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your habits, they become your character.
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

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RUPERT BROOKE

I know what things are good - friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.

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ANNE FRANK

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

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DANNY KAYE

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

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L.M. HODGES

Whether one is twenty, forty, sixty, or eighty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along - life begins each morning! The greatest fact in life is that it is never too late to start again.

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"By the Lotus Pond"

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ALBERT EINSTEIN

The ideals which have always filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty and truth.

ANON

Don't let today's disappointments cast a shadow on tomorrow's dreams.

OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II

Climb every mountain,
Ford every stream,
Follow every rainbow,
Till you find your dream.

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The new blog "By the Lotus Pond" has been updated today.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

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JAMES BALDWIN

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

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W.H. DAVIES

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?

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NEW - now online -NEW

By the Lotus Pond

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GEORGE LORIMER

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

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ANON

If we make the most of opportunities, opportunities will make the most of us.

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HELEN KELLER

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.

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LAO-TZU

Stop trying to leave and you will arrive
Stop seeking and you will see
Stop running away and you will be found

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DON MIGUEL RUIZ

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do.

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ALEXANDRA STODDARD

What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.

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BERNARD- PAUL HEROUX

There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea.

BARUCH SPINOZA

Desire nothing for yourself which you do not desire for others.

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H. STEIN

Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs.

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ANON

Friends are flowers in the garden of life.

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MAX L. FORMAN

Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.

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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

JOHN ANDREW HOLMES

There is no better exercise than the heart reaching down and lifting people up.

MARK TWAIN

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

ANON

Friendship is a living thing that lasts as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.

MAYA ANGELOU

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry, to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

EPICURUS

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

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KATHERINE MANSEFIELD

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Old Tennessee Saying

He that doesn't tooteth his own trumpet, doesn't get his trumpet tooted.

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BLOG NEWS
After an interval of six months, a new series will begin next week at John's Gallery.
The first post will be made on Friday 18th May.
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VICTOR HUGO

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Learn from yesterday, love for today and hope for tomorrow

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ALEXANDRA SMITH

It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it.

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SAMUEL JOHNSON

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

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Spanish Proverb

He who gossips with you will also gossip about you.

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LAO-TZU

Whether you are a gem in the royal court or a stone on a common path, if you accept your part with humility the power of the universe will be yours.

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MOTHER TERESA

Life is a promise - fulfill it.

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ANON

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

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JONATHAN WINTERS

If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.

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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery,
and today is a gift;
that’s why they call it the present.

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HOWARD SCHUTZ

Dream more than others think practical
Expect more than others think possible

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