The more I cut

Garden Rose

The more I cut my roses, the more they grew. I realised that without their deadweight, the bud had more strength to bloom.

October 14th, 2004 / Noted in Home & Garden, Quotes

It’s OK to be fabulous

I’d like to share a quote that says so perfectly what I tried to in a previous post.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

~ Marianne Williamson

August 27th, 2004 / Noted in Quotes

Don’t look for the bad

“When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.”

Abraham Lincoln

August 2nd, 2004 / Noted in Quotes

Live like you mean

Live like you mean it.

July 23rd, 2004 / Noted in Quotes

Ordinary acts

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

Thomas Moore, 19th-century poet.

March 21st, 2004 / Noted in Home & Garden, Quotes

Choice

I believe we always have a choice, even if it’s just between hard and harder.

October 1st, 2003 / Noted in Quotes

Good-bye Katherine

June 30th, 2003 / Noted in Quotes

Pleasures of Life

“When we lack proper time for the simple pleasures of life, for the enjoyment of eating, drinking, playing, creating, visiting friends, and watching children at play, then we have missed the purpose of life. Not on bread alone do we live but on all these human and heart-hungry luxuries.”

Ed Hayes

June 11th, 2003 / Noted in Quotes

The secret

June 2nd, 2003 / Noted in Quotes

You know you’ve achieved perfection

You know you’ve achieved perfection in design,
Not when you have nothing more to add,
But when you have nothing more to take away.

Antoine de Saint Exupery.

January 13th, 2003 / Noted in Quotes