"If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."

~Katharine Hepburn

"The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success."

`Anna Garlin Spencer

gentleman by conduct

"Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with."

~Kathleen Mifsud

"We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine."

~Galeano

"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."
-- Claude Monet

be happy now

Puddle Jumpers @ Redwood Park

another kite quote

"The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.”

~William Arthur Ward

"Don"t be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with the wind."

~Hamilton Wright Marbie

"Remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses."

~Marcus Aurelius

happy Memorial Day

"On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!"

~Thomas William Parsons

Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,
But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.

~Rupert Brooke

fais tes prières

melt me

"Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity."

~Gaston Rebufat

the AscenDance Project in Union Square

"A fight is not won by one punch or one kick.
Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard."

~Bruce Lee

escargots deux

"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. "

~ Confucius

"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all animals."

~George Orwell

tex mex message

"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”


~Jon Kabat~Zinn

a sign

“I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.”

~Oscar Wilde

"He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart."


~C. S. Lewis

have a Gucci good morning

"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live."

~Flora Whittemore

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I will not be stopped.

double take a

"Life is the sum of all your choices."

~Albert Camus

Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."

~Hans Christian Anderson

"It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop." ~Vita Sackville-West

full of Grace

"Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.”

~Jackie Windspear

"To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”

~Lao Tzu

alley cat

a truffle for your thoughts

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”

~Henry David Thoreau

“A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.”

~Herman Melville

"Time, the dark whale,
spouts blithely from his spiracle
A jet of memory that makes glad the sun."

~William Rose Benet

The contra-auguste

two for the waves

"I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things...I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind."

~Leo F. Buscaglia

a mini attitude adjustment

Rainer Maria Rilke:

"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."

"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."

St. Thomas Acquinas

tribe Zephyrus

a mini angel

"To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.”


~Alphonse de Lamartine

hippy happy

"I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom."
-- Jim Morrison

white hot

little love nibble

"Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow."









a quote from a trapeze artist whom Dr. Norman Peale mentions in his book

bigger smiles now

take a moment