The Kiss

The Kiss by Gustav Klimt

“The moment of that kiss contained every happy moment I had ever lived.” -Paul Coelho

HEY Cowboy

"Courage is being scared to death
and saddling up anyway."
- John Wayne

Now More Than Ever

We have to believe in ourselves,
but we mustn't suppose that the path will be easy.
It's tough.
Life is painful, and rain falls on the just.

Mr. Churchill was not being a pessimist when he said,
"I have nothing to offer, but blood, toil, tears and sweat."

He had a great deal more to offer,
but as a good leader he was saying it isn't going to be easy,
and he was also saying something that all great leaders say constantly -
that failure is simply a reason to strengthen resolve.

We cannot dream of a Utopia in which all arrangements are ideal and everyone is flawless.
Life is tumultuous - an endless losing and regaining of balance,
a continuous struggle, never an assured victory.
Nothing is ever finally safe.
Every important battle is fought and refought.

You may wonder if such a struggle, endless and of uncertain outcome,
isn't more than humans can bear.

But all of history suggests that the human spirit

is well fitted to cope with
just that kind of world."-John Gardner

The Strength of Your Perception

"Remember that your perception creates your reality."

No Interruptions Please

The person who says it cannot be done
should not
interrupt the person doing it.-Chinese Proverb

Landscape in the Sky

"More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure."

-Cecil Beaton

Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

" I'm wild again

Beguiled again

A simpering, whimpering child again

Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I

Couldn't sleep

And wouldn't sleep

Until I could sleep where I shouldn't sleep

Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I

Lost my heart but what of it?

My mistake I agree.

he's a laugh, but I like it

because the laugh's on me.

A pill he is

But still he is

All mine and I'll keep him until he is

Bewitched, bothered and bewildered

Like me. " music and lyrics for Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered -Rogers and Hart