13 Quotes...

* my suburban morning view from here... 6:30-ish , Feb. 9, 2010

Its Thursday again (seems I can only manage one blog post a week these days) and that means its Thursday 13, so....and I have a list of "13" once again, too:

13 favorite quotes that resonate with me and/or inspire me:

1. "If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance." ~Andrea Boydston


2. "There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one." ~Kazuo
Ishiguro

3. "I have the simplest of tastes. I am always satisfied with the best." ~ Oscar Wilde


4. "Art is the only way to run away without leaving home." ~Twyla Tharp


5. "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." ~Pablo Picasso (I read this one in my teens and have remembered it ever since)


6. "Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do." ~Edgar Degas


7. When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?" ~Howard Ikemoto

8. "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw

9. "Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." - Kahlil Gibran

10. "Dreams are free, so free your dreams." ~Astrid Alauda

11. "I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering." ~Steven Wright

12. "Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day." ~Author Unknown


13. "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

...and can I add a 14th?

Winter is nature's way of

saying, "Up yours." ~ Robert Byrne

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What’s the Thursday 13?
The Thursday 13 is a weekly meme with a simple theme: each Thursday you blog a list of 13 things. What kind of things? Any kind! Just come up with a list theme and run with it.

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