Bulldogs, Blatherings and Other Nonsense: Inspiration

7.11.10

Inspiration

I have inspiration boards. Two cork boards with things people have sent me (not knowing that I'd save the front of a card or a stone), pictures of trips, the grandaughter, the dogs, a friend's horse, cartoons that make me laugh or think and pretty things that I like. The other board later....

Things I Wish I'd Said (channeling Robert Fulghum)

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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things

Henry Ward Beecher
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain, 1835-1910

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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?- Mary Oliver
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I’ve been down many a road in my life. And not all of them were paved. Ga-Ga (Ree Drummond’s grandmother on Ree’s website/blog Pioneer Woman)
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We were meant to heal from our wounds.

Caroline Myss
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"Do or do not do. There is no try."

Master Yoda
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"In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

Albert Camus
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An unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

and then...

an unexamined life may not be worth living, but the over examined life is hell. We talk too much.
Abigail Thomas, A Three Dog Life
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I finally figured out the only reason to be alive it to enjoy it. Rita Mae Brown
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Let us keep this truth before us. You say you have no faith? Love--and faith will come. You say you are sad? Love--and joy will come. You say you are alone? Love--and you will break out of your solitude. You say you are in hell? Love--and you will find yourself in heaven. Heaven is love.
In Search Of The Beyond, Carlo Carretto
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Co-existing with any living creature, even one of your own species, requires endless compromise and grace, and a certain desire to redeem an affirmation of life from your most deadly inclinations. Live and let live is easy to say, but not always easy to practice. Feel fortunate when you can sometimes, somehow manage that.

Robert Fulghum
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All who wander are not lost.

J.R.R. Tolkien
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No gesture is too small when done with gratitude.
Oprah
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We should all do what in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
E.B. White
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This writing business, pencils and whatnot. Overrated if you ask me.
Eeyore
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Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit.

Napolean Bonaparte
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine."
John Muir
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If you really want to be happy, nobody can stop you.
Sister Mary Tricky
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If there are no dogs in heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
Will Rogers
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"The word is a mighty force." the Snake from B.C. after being beaten senseless by Fat Broad yelling WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! because she'd forgotten her club.
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I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

Ingrid Bergman
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Calvin- "I wonder why man was put on earth. What's our purpose? Why are we here?"

Hobbes- "Tiger food."

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