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

Doodles

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau

Logo concepts

We shall not cease from exploring. And at the end of our exploration, we will return to where we started and know the place for the first time.
T.S. Eliot

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Theresa of Calcutta

You have to be willing to grow. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it.

Bruce Mau

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Z is for...

12" x 12"

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Howard Thurman

"How does one become a butterfly?"

"You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."

The most frightening and most difficult thing about being what someone calls a creative person is you have absolutely no idea where any of your thoughts come from really, and especially you don't have any idea about where they're going to come from tomorrow.

Doug Pray

Life is not a path of coincidence, happenstance and luck, but rather an unexplainable, meticulously charted course for one to touch the lives of others and make a difference in the world.

B. Dillinham

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

William Inge

More art journaling

Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with a love like that — it lights the whole sky.

Hafiz

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

E. M. Forster

If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.

C.S. Lewis

Don't be afraid to fail.

Be afraid not to try.

The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with the things you don't know.

– Sherman Alexie

Art journaling 2

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?
- Pablo Picasso

It's not enough to rage against the lie...you've got to replace it with the truth.

– Bono

Art journaling

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

– Dorothy Thompson

My latest collaboration with EMP

I feel like the luckiest girl on earth these days! Look what I get to do for my friend over at EMP! SO fun... full slideshow of the album here.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul.

– Theodore Dreiser