There is but one salvation for the tired soul;
love for another person.
For what is love, but the lover makes the soul
of his beloved his sphere and they are one in
spirit
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASETTE
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Come what may as long as you live, it is day.
And if I in the world must roam, wherever you are,
that is home.
When your loving voice I hear the future’s shadows disappear.
THEODORE STORM
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers, and cities;
but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us,
and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth
for us an inhabited garden.
JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETH
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I FOUND A GREAT TUTORIAL TODAY ON HOW TO USE PHOTOSHOP TO MAKE FLANNEL. YOU CAN FIND IT HERE.
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I HAVE LATELY BEEN FEELING AS THOUGH I WAS GETTING NOWHERE FAST; AS IF I WERE TREADING WATER. I DON’T FEEL LIKE GIVING UP. THAT WOULD MEAN SINKING. BUT, I FEEL A STRONG SENSE OF FRUSTRATION ALONG WITH MY DETERMINATION.
THESE QUOTES REALLY FIT MY LIFE PHILOSOPHY.
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward
perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp
stones on life’s path.
- Kahlil Gibran, 1883 - 1931)
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst
of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it
a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
- Thomas Carlyle, 1795 - 1881
Don’t ever become a pessimist … A pessimist is correct
oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun - and
neither can stop the march of events.
- Robert A. Heinlein, 1907 - 1988
This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to
march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
- Hubert H. Humphrey, 1911 - 1978
The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
- Emile Zola, 1840 - 1902
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only
marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
- Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910
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Be nice to your kids. They’ll choose your nursing home.
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-rearing, they are unemployed.
I’m going to stop punishing my children by saying, “Never mind! I’ll do it myself.”
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
- All from Erma Louise Bombeck, 1927 - 1996
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
- John Gunther
My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.
- Winston Churchill, 1874 - 1965
There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.
- Aldo Leopold, 1887 - 1948
Oh yes, there is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.
- Helen Rowland, 1875 - 1950
It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can’t do it.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Waiting until everything is perfect before making a move is like waiting to start a trip until all the traffic lights are green.
- Karen Ireland
In painting, as in the other arts, there’s not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.
I’ve been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.
There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.
Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.
- All from Pierre Auguste Renoir, 1841 - 1919
I’m now at the age where I’ve got to prove that I’m just as good as I never was.
- All from Rex Harrison, 1908 - 1990
This is my BLOG on adding scrapbooking to your journaling as opposed to adding journaling to your scrapbooking. I think that it is more soul baring and therapeutic to journal with the visual aid of photographs or whatever you want to put on a scrap layout.
I have been surfing around and reading some scrap blogs. Most of them say little and give away much. Forgive me if I am wrong, but I thought the purpose of a blog was to say something. If they are used as a diary, some of these people have very dull lives, or are scared to expose themselves.
I can relate to the reluctance to hang it all out on the web, but if that is the case, why not just have a freebie site somewhere?
I would like to see more blogs geared toward teaching people how to get more journaling into their scrap layouts and possibly discussing design principles. Personally, I don’t have time to read alot of stuff going on in other peoples lives. When I do have some free time, I would prefer to be scrapping, reading or writing.
I am constantly seeking information on whatever subject that interests me for the moment.
In other words, I self educate. I have become pretty good at gathering information and putting it in a usable order. I am not sure how I can do this on the blogger system, but I am going to put up journaling promts and links to tutorials. I may still add links for freebies, but that would only be as a secondary purpose.
Since I am preaching journaling, I will upload some of my layouts I have done that are in the form of diary entries over a scrapbook layout, just to prove it can be done. This blog interface isn’t as conducive to photo uploading as Blogger is so to see the Layouts, you will find the link below under Scrap Therapy.
I have Categorised the Quotes below. Since I am working on the Great American Novel, there are some new categories for writers and readers.
 | C. Apana on Journaling Prompts Again |
 | Betty on Self Imposed Stress |
 | rupam on DISNEY SONG LYRICS |
 | Hummie on Being Preoccupied |
| Hummie on The Disadvantages of Being… |
