inspiring quotes and images

Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face. ~James D. Finley



A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. ~William Arthur Ward



God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down. ~H. Beerbohm-Tree



Scrapbooking fills my days - not to mention my living room, bedroom and closets! ~Author Unknown



An older sister helps one remain half child, half woman. ~Author Unknown



All God's angels come to us disguised. ~James Russell Lowell



Breastmilk: the gift that keeps on giving. ~Author Unknown



I'm always top banana in the shock department. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly



Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll. ~Author Unknown



A person given to barefaced flattery, will usually balance the account with interest in your absence. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain



Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment. ~Heywood Hale Broun



If you believe everything you read, you better not read. ~Japanese Proverb



Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven. ~Mark Twain



Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film. ~Author Unknown



Cities are the abyss of the human species. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile



The body must be credited with an immense fund of know-how. ~Deepak Chopra



Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them. ~Suzanne Necker



There's such a thin line between winning and losing. ~John R. Tunis



Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, - from human souls whom we never saw, who lived perhaps thousands of miles away; and yet these, on those little sheets of paper, speak to us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers. ~Charles Kingsley