Friday, December 27, 2013

It Takes Two

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. - Mark Twain
 





As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. -  Buddy Hackett



A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. -  Coco Chanel



If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. - Confucius






A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. -  J. P. Morgan







Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.  -  Aristotle

 
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. -  Indira Gandhi
 
 





 
 
 
 
 

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Finding my Path

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.


 
I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it. - Rosalia de Castro
 


 
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
Theodore Roethke
 

 
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

 
The best path through life is the highway.
Henri Frederic Amiel
 


 
If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
Frank A. Clark
 


 
All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
Saint Teresa of Avila
 

Friday, October 25, 2013

Life at Sea

The best way to find oneself is to lose oneself in the eternal horizon of roaring waves




SanDiego, water, ocean,pacific, san diego, boat,island,tree,coast
 

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.
-
Antoine Rivarol

 

 






 
 
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.-Aristotle Onassis 
 
 




 
 



It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.- Antoine Rivarol
 
 


 Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up
- Orson Welles






“Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.”
- Aeschylus

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Open Books, Open Minds

Writing novels is a talent, but reading them is an art in its own.
 

The wise man reads both books and life itself. - Lyn Yutang
 
 


“You're the same today as you'll be in five years except for the people you meet and the books you read.”  - Charlie Jones



 
 “Wear the old coat and buy the new book.” - Austin Phelps

 

 
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.- Albert Einstein 
 
 




 
Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. -Joseph Joubert
 
 

 
“Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.” - Hazel Rochman
 
 


“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” - Confucious



 

Saturday, August 17, 2013

A World’s Cuisine at your Fingertips

“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.” - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin




Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
- Henry Ford

 
 


“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
― Confucius
 

 
 
 
 
 

“The only way cheese is dessert is when it's followed by the word cake.”
- Michele Gorman
 

 
 
 
 


“When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose.
”
― Jarod Kintz


 
 
 
 
 

 It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
-Benjamin Franklin

 
 
 Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
 -Francis Bacon
 
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. -George Santayana