January 2012
5 posts
Loving Camille Styles
And all the inspiration I’m soaking up! My favorite is the glitter-packed envelope. Any ideas for the perfect card for moi?
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people...
– Maya Angelou
It is higher and nobler to be kind.
– Mark Twain
I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.
– Mother Teresa
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
– Albert Camus
December 2011
5 posts
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
– Jennie Jerome Churchill
The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who...
– E.J. Hobsbawm
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
– George Washington
November 2011
9 posts
To us, family means putting your arm around each other and being there.
– Barbara Bush
The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
– William McFee
No one, ever, wrote anything as well after one drink as he would have done...
In the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
– John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.
– Greek proverb
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
– John Muir
When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
– Elizabeth Bowen
Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one...
– Judith Olney
October 2011
10 posts
Nothing is so dear as what you’re about to leave.
– Jessamyn West
To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.
– François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680), French author of maxims and memoirs
The things people discard tell more about them than the things they keep.
– Hilda Lawrence
Lack of charisma can be fatal.
– Jenny Holzer
It is best to learn as we go, not as we have learned.
Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
– F.P. Jones
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ouselves.
– Lynn Hall
September 2011
5 posts
To change your life: Start immediately, do it flamboyantly, no exceptions.
– William Jones
The most courageous act is to think for yourself. Aloud.
– Coco Chanel
Ideas move fast when their time comes.
– Carolyn G. Heilbrun
August 2011
6 posts
I can stand what I know. It’s what I don’t know that frightens me.
– Frances Newton
Don’t let your fears overwhelm your desires. Let the barriers you face —...
– Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, in The New Yorker, July 2011
We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
– Adrienne Rich
I think your whole life shows in your face, and you should be proud of that.
– Lauren Bacall
I want these kitchen (temporary) tatts! →
Effort, after days of laziness, seemed impossible.
– Doris Lessing
July 2011
5 posts
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
– George Bernard Shaw
I enjoy a cup of champagne upon rising and a cup in the evening before turning...
– Fernand Point (The perfect birthday quote!)
Every story has three sides to it—yours, mine and the facts.
– Foster Meharny Russell
June 2011
15 posts
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food...
– Mark Twain (1835–1910), American author and humorist
We have to work to be good people…goodness always involves the choice to be...
– Liv Ullman