5/25/07

inspirational quotes....

My intention is to design a "zenlike" book containing quotes that move/inspire me, along w/the play of graphic elements and type.

"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."
Mary Lou Cook

"When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us."
Helen Keller

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your own consent"
Eleanor Roosevelt

"No one can possibly know what is about to happen: It is happening, each time, for the only time.
James Baldwin

"Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.
Marilyn Ferguson

"Silence is a source of great strength."
Lao Tzu

"Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death."
Betty Bender


"Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun."

Colleen C. Barrett

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
Carl Jung

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."
Buddha

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
Maya Angelou

"We see things not as they are, but as we are."
H.M. Tomlinson

"We are more than what we do... much more than what we accomplish... far more than what we possess."
William Arthur Ward

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
George Bernard Shaw

"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."
Oprah Winfrey

"Carefully watch your THOUGHTS, for they become your WORDS. Manage and watch your WORDS, for they will become your ACTIONS. Consider and judge your ACTIONS, for they have become your HABITS. Acknowledge and watch your HABITS, for they shall become your VALUES. Understand and embrace your VALUES, for they become YOUR DESTINY."
Mahatma Gandhi

"You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time, you must make it."
Charles Bruxton

"They can because they think they can."
Virgil

"Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it."
Les Brown

"We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse."
Anne-Sophie Swetchine

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face…you must do the thing you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly."
Robert H. Schuller

"The most effective way to do it, is to do it."
Amelia Earhart


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You write very well.