A few words of wisdom for the start of 2018.
Perhaps the luck is in finding the four leaf clover and have to make your own luck rather than find it in a field. – Terry Kruse
Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right. – Henry Ford
Creativity is intelligence having fun. – Albert Einstein
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney
For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded. – Jack Canfield
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. – Winston Churchill
You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. – Zig Ziglar
If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you. – Steve Jobs
Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. – John Wooden
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “I’m possible”! — Audrey Hepburn
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough. —Oprah Winfrey
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do. – Johann Worfgang
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. – William Arthur Ward
I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. —Jimmy Dean
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. — Les Brown
Do or do not. There is no try. —Yoda
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbour, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. —Mark Twain
Change your thoughts and you change your world. — Norman Vincent Peale
I would rather die of passion than of boredom. — Vincent van Gogh
If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. — Sheryl Sandberg
Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. — Ancient Indian Proverb
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. — Helen Keller
If you count all your assets, you always show a profit. – Robert Quillen
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. – Robert Brault
Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity… it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. – Melody Beattie
The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it. – Michael Josephson
Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy. – Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. – Charles Schwab
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. – Epictetus
At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. – Albert Schweitzer
You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. – Willie Nelson
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out. – John Wooden
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude. – A.A. Milne
Forget yesterday – it has already forgotten you. Don’t sweat tomorrow – you haven’t even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift today. – Steve Maraboli
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. – Voltaire
We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count. – Neal A. Maxwell
The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. – John E. Southard
Gratitude also opens your eyes to the limitless potential of the universe, while dissatisfaction closes your eyes to it. – Stephen Richards
In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day – or to celebrate each special day. – Rasheed Ogunlaru
This a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before. – Maya Angelou
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. – Melody Beattie
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ― William Arthur Ward
Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy. – Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings. — William Arthur Ward
If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.— Frank A. Clark
Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses. — Alphonse Karr
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. — Albert Einstein
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. – Andy Warhol
and for the artist in me..
Inspiration does exist but it must find you working. – Pablo Picasso
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. – Twyla Tharp
A Good artist has less time than ideas. – Martin Kippenberger
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity. – Alberto Giacometti
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. – Lucian Freud
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all. – Michelangelo
To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist. – Schumann
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures. – Vincent Van Gogh
Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Andy Warhol
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. – Vincent Van Gogh
The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable. – Robert Henri
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. – Henry Ward Beecher