If you are your authentic self, you have no competition.
Scott Stratten

Happiness is a form of courage.
George Holbrook Jackson

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
E. B. White

Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness.
Robert Brault

The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.
Dalai Lama

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. 
Cesare Pavese

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Gordon B. Hinckley

‎When you give yourself away, you get yourself back enhanced.
Walter Brueggemann

Hello 2013!

Nothing is impossible. The word itself says "I'm possible!"

Audrey Hepburn

It’s all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.Charles de Lint

Watch with glittery eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. 
Roald Dahl

What would you do if you weren't afraid?

I never read. I just look at pictures.
Andy Warhol

There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

C. S. Lewis

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.
George Bernard Shaw 

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish. The time will pass anyway.
Earl Nightengale

We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are.
Max DePree

One of the most important, and most neglected, elements... is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value and the beauty in ordinary things, to come alive to the splendor that is all around us.

Thomas Merton

Cat naps in the sun...

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

Nora Ephron

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
Pablo Picasso

Collect moments, not things.

And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.
Nora Ephron

There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Steve Jobs

We lose ourselves in the things we love.
We find ourselves there, too.
Kristin Martz

A good deed brightens a dark world.

Being loved deeply by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lau Tzu

Always learning something new...

Love it or leave it

So stoked that my Phoenix post is LIVE over at DesignSponge!

You are a perishable item.

Live accordingly.

Final logo selection

Logo concepts for Rosemary & Thyme photography

Creativity takes courage.

Henri Matisse

On my mind...

Never let the cloudiness of what is seen take your attention from the unseen. There is a whole other world at work. If we lose sight of that, we lose sight of everything.

Ramon Vidaurri

Keep your face always toward the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.

Walt Whitman

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ideas will not keep. Something must be done with them.

Diane Aldworth

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Edwin Land

A year from now you will wish you had started today.

Karen Lamb

Celebrating new mercies

The most beautiful people we have known are those that struggle, known loss and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I'm not afraid of storms, for [in them] I'm learning how to sail my ship.

Louisa May Alcott

If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

Baby it's cold outside...

He who seeks beauty shall find it.

Bill Cunningham

There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time.

Coco Chanel

Everything I'm not makes me everything I am.

Unknown

Missing the beach...

Life is a series of thousands of tiny miracles.

Mike Greenberg

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Michelangelo

Running through my head

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

Thornton Wilde

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Rumi

It’s never too late to be what you might have been.

George Elliot

Good advice

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

Unknown

Everything works out in the end. If it hasn't worked out, it's not the end.

Unknown

It's that time again...

"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."

A. A. Milne

Summer doodles...

Words of wisdom

Inspiration exists but it has to find you working.

Pablo Picasso

Forty by 40.

It is by acts, not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Edwin Land

Springtime doodles

To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Pearce

Spring sunshine

I guess I'm not the only one that loves to soak up that sun coming through the window...

Doodles

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Plato

To do: this week

So grab the hooked end of a question mark and hang on until you’re flying in the direction you want to go.

Grace Kerina

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten we belong to each other.

Mother Theresa

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

Janos Arany

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly...
R. Buckminster Fuller

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.

Chinese Proverb

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

Bette Midler

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls.

Audrey Hepburn

When you come to the edge of all the light you have, and must take a step into the darkness of the unknown, believe that one of two things will happen. Either there will be something solid for you to stand on or you will be taught how to fly.

Patrick Overton

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.

Robert H. Schuller

Some more summer doodles

I have held many things in my hands and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

Martin Luther

The final choice

Find out how much god has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
St. Augustine

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

Chinese Proverb