A Life in Colour

Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority. ~W.J. Cameron

May God bless you and your family this Christmas.

taking my summer Break

:-)

Quiet mind

2011-12-08T17:13:00.001+02:00

Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
Hans Margolius

light

2011-12-07T08:35:00.001+02:00

The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.
~John Greenleaf Whittier

Time is gold

2011-12-06T08:09:00.001+02:00

“An inch of time is an inch of gold, but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold”

Chinese Proverbs

Strength

2011-12-05T07:44:00.001+02:00

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”

Mahatma Gandhi

I am

2011-12-02T14:04:00.001+02:00

“I am more than I know myself to be.”

how to fly

2011-12-01T07:54:00.000+02:00

“The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

Douglas Adams

Monsters

2011-11-30T10:44:00.001+02:00

“O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on”

William Shakespeare

as they are supposed to be

2011-11-29T07:45:00.000+02:00

“Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue.

Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.”

Jules Feiffer

the stronger of the two

2011-11-28T08:27:00.001+02:00

“The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.”
― Confucius

Be yourself

2011-11-24T07:50:00.000+02:00

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

~Judy Garland

Friends

2011-11-23T08:12:00.000+02:00

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us,

we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures,

have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion,

who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement,

who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness,

that is a friend who cares

The Hunt

2011-11-22T07:39:00.000+02:00

“Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.”
Paul Rodriguez

Family

2011-11-21T08:06:00.000+02:00

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space,

the children with outer space,

and the mother with closet space.

~Evan Esar

Endings

2011-11-18T07:45:00.000+02:00

“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”

Orson Welles

Horizons

2011-11-17T12:47:00.000+02:00

“We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon”

Konrad Adenauer

Disappearing

2011-11-16T15:00:00.000+02:00

“We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson

rain

2011-11-15T08:01:00.001+02:00

“I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.”
― Charles Chaplin

Summer rain

2011-11-14T08:53:00.000+02:00

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

Langston Hughes

the dragonfly

2011-11-11T09:09:00.000+02:00

Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly

Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.~

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Silent Noon

Children

2011-11-10T07:31:00.000+02:00

I want this child to learn.

I've looked the wide world over,

In search for teachers true.

And from the throngs that crowd life's lanes,

I have selected you.

exctract from "A Child Of Mine (To All Parents)"

Edgar Guest

thorns

2011-11-09T12:22:00.000+02:00

“The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.”

Maya Angelou

Loneliness

2011-11-08T11:33:00.000+02:00

“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Happiness

2011-11-07T07:57:00.002+02:00

“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you”

Nathaniel Hawthorne

2011-11-04T08:08:00.000+02:00

“We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.”

Tranquility

2011-11-01T09:05:00.000+02:00

“When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere”

François de la Rochefoucauld

dark side

2011-10-31T07:59:00.000+02:00

“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody”

Mark Twain

Success

2011-10-28T08:56:00.000+02:00

“Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.”

Jon Bon Jovi

slipping

2011-10-27T11:58:00.000+02:00

“Better slip with foot than tongue”
Benjamin Franklin

Newman's first law

2011-10-26T09:12:00.000+02:00

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.
~ Paul Newman

Hold on

2011-10-25T11:21:00.000+02:00

When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.

Honestly !!

2011-10-24T14:54:00.000+02:00

A lion wouldn't cheat, but a tiger wood

“It rolled like water off a duck's back”

2011-10-21T08:09:00.000+02:00

Don't always take everything you hear personally.
First identify from whom it comes

enjoy the weekend

reflection

2011-10-20T13:10:00.000+02:00

“Do you ever wonder if the guy in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?”
― Calvin and Hobbes

I am nobody but myself

2011-10-19T08:07:00.000+02:00

All my life I had been looking for something,
and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.
I accepted their answers too,
though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory.
I was naïve.
I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions
which I, and only I, could answer.
It took me a long time
and much painful boomeranging of my expectations
to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with:
that I am nobody but myself.
~Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal"

fly

2011-10-18T07:55:00.000+02:00

“Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.”

Monkey in the tree

2011-10-17T07:20:00.000+02:00

“I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from
as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.”
Loren Eiseley

Masks

2011-10-14T08:16:00.000+02:00

“Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes

raising boys

2011-10-12T07:07:00.000+02:00

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard.
Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass."
"We're not raising grass," Dad would reply.
"We're raising boys."
~Harmon Killebrew

Seasons

2011-10-11T08:32:00.000+02:00

“Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.”
William Cullen

Variety

2011-10-10T07:44:00.000+02:00

“The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness”
Michel de Montaigne

Reputation

2011-10-07T08:49:00.000+02:00

“Reputations are made by searching for things that can't be done and doing them”
Frank Tyger

Opportunity

2011-10-06T13:22:00.000+02:00

“As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it!
No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!”
Robert Collier

Flames

2011-10-05T07:59:00.000+02:00

“True Love burns the brightest, But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.”

The question

2011-10-04T11:19:00.000+02:00

“How does one become a butterfly?" she asked.
"You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.”

Slow is good

2011-10-03T07:39:00.000+02:00

“He who is slow to anger has great understanding,
but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.”
Proverb

Friends

2011-09-30T07:39:00.000+02:00

“True friends are those who lift you up when your heart's wings forget how to fly.”

Face it

2011-09-29T07:42:00.000+02:00

“I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception”
Groucho Marx

Friendship

2011-09-28T07:54:00.000+02:00

“Friendships are fragile things,
and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.”

Good Morning

2011-09-26T08:23:00.000+02:00

“If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.”
Maya Angelou

Teaching

2011-09-23T08:20:00.000+02:00

“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.”
Denis Waitley

Faith

2011-09-22T08:02:00.000+02:00

“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.”
Henry David Thoreau

Makeup or Make up

2011-09-21T08:38:00.000+02:00

“Kiss and make up--but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.”
Mae West

words to remember

2011-09-20T07:44:00.000+02:00

“Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening,
but no matter how hard death tries it can't separate people from love.
It can't take away our memories either.
In the end, life is stronger than death.”

Persistence

2011-09-19T07:08:00.000+02:00

“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience.
Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”
Hal Borland

Love

2011-09-16T07:36:00.000+02:00

“O powerful love,that in some respects makes a beast a man,in some other, a man a beast.”
William Shakespeare

Courtship

2011-09-15T08:50:00.000+02:00

“In courtship a man pursues a woman until she catches him”
Proverb

simplicity

2011-09-13T07:26:00.000+02:00

“The simplest things are often the truest.”
Richard Bach

Life

2011-09-12T14:05:00.000+02:00

“Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own”
Adam Lindsay Gordon

fences

2011-09-08T09:01:00.000+02:00

“The fence that makes good neighbors needs a gate to make good friends”

gentle soul

2011-09-07T08:05:00.000+02:00

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi

for you

2011-09-06T07:52:00.000+02:00

“When the first light of sun, Bless you.
When the long day is done, Bless you.
In your smiles and your tears, Bless you.
Through each day of your years, Bless you.”
Irish Blessings

hiding

2011-09-05T08:17:00.000+02:00

“To hide the key to your heart is to risk forgetting where you placed it.”
Timothy Childers

sunset

2011-09-02T08:18:00.000+02:00

“If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman,
I shall feel that I have worked with God.”
G. K. Chesterton

Peace

2011-09-01T08:36:00.000+02:00

“I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.”
Nelson Mandela

there is hope

2011-08-31T09:04:00.000+02:00

“You can only be young once.
But you can always be immature.”
Dave Barry

Splash

2011-08-31T09:02:00.000+02:00

“Once we are in the habit of filtering what we want to believe through a sieve,
disbelief splashes back in our face”

Wildlife

2011-08-29T09:51:00.000+02:00

I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife.
They are the stars.
I feel awkward without them.
Bindi Irwin

All of these lines across my face

2011-08-26T07:16:00.000+02:00

All of these lines across my face
Tell you the story of who I am
So many stories of where I've been
And how I got to where I am
But these stories don't mean anything
When you've got no one to tell them to

Phillip John Hanseroth
http://youtu.be/o8pQLtHTPaI