Day to day living...loving...learning!
All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!" ~ Bob Newhart
"There is no blue without yellow and without orange." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
“'Alice laughed: 'There's no use trying,' she said;
'one can't believe impossible things.'
'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen.
'When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day.
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.'” ~ Lewis Carroll
“ Every morning is a fresh opportunity
to find God’s extraordinary joy
in the most ordinary places. ”~ Janet L. Weaver
" I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." ~ G.K. Chesteron
"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made; Our times are in His hands who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid!" ~ Robert Browning
"The good Mother is a great artist, ever creating beauty out of chaos." ~ Alice Randall
"The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life."
~Robert Louis Stevenson
"It's not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness." ~Charles Spurgeon
"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are truly conscious of our treasures." ~ T. Wilder
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” ~ Albert Einstein
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” ~Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more truly artistic that to love others." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. " ~ Vincent Van Gogh
"But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. " ~Vincent Van Gogh
"When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. " ~Vncent Van Gogh
“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.” ~ Gerry Spence
"The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful." ~ e.e. cummings
“Earth is crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees, takes off his shoes - The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times." ~ Saint Augustine
"Never let your children's schooling interfere with their education." ~ attributed to Mark Twain
"You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it. " ~ Neil Gaiman
"I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly." ~Buckminster Fuller
"The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one." ~ Jill Churchhill
"I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me. " St. Augustine
"It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can’t tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself." ~ Joyce Maynard
"We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and a mystery." ~ H. G. Wells
"I find a rhythm, a way of seeking, a way of working... a way of praying. Ora et labora. The laundry, the dishes, the beds, the floors, these have a harmony, a gentle tempo in time. Daily work is not drudgery or pressurepacked, but cadence and beauty. This work is our slow dance with God." ~ Ann Voskamp
"To look up is joy." ~ Confucius
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Oh Sam is wearing the shirt!!! He looks so cute in that. Those pictures are great... thanks for posting them.
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