A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. ~Maya Angelou He who sings frightens away his ills. ~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote…

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. ~Hans Hofmann, Introduction to the Bootstrap, 1993 To poke a wood fire is more solid…

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ~William Penn Silence is the true friend that…

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping. ~Bo Derek When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a…

Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. ~Robert Byrne, quoted in 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, 1988 The tragedy of…

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. ~Jane Haddam Self-respect is the fruit of discipline… ~Abraham J. Heschel…

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. ~Thomas Szasz, "Personal Conduct,"…

Discipline is remembering what you want. ~David Campbell Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel,…

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. ~Henry Van Dyke, The Prison and the Angel We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. ~Jean Guitton…

Scrapbooking fills my days - not to mention my living room, bedroom and closets! ~Author Unknown Blessed are the children of scrapbookers, for they shall inherit the scrapbooks. ~Author Unknown…