Quotations from others

Lets play Guess-who-and-what this person is. Who are they and what is their story/contribution? I have left their occupations out to increase the mystery.

I always thought if I were popular I must be doing something wrong.

Suzanne Vega

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honourable, brave is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.

Jane Harrison

Unfortunately, sometimes people don't hear you until you scream.

Stefanie Powers

A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold.

Marlo Thomas

The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?

Myrtie Barker

When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if they like what they see, they listen.

Pauline Frederick

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Gertrude Stein

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Roumania.

Dorothy Parker

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Gloria Steinem

Oh, I'm so inadequate - and I love myself.

Meg Ryan

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Katharine Hepburn

Its the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

Tallulah Bankhead

Whenever you want to marry someone, go and have lunch with his ex-wife.

Shelley Winters

The important thing I have learnt over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

Margot Fonteyn

Personally, I think if a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

Deborah Kerr

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

Erica Jong

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own short-comings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other peoples characters.

Margaret Halsey

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

Elizabeth Cady Staton

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

Diane Sawyer

The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Roseanne Barr

Kids learn more from example than anything you say. I'm convinced they learn very early not to hear anything you say, but to watch what you do.

Jane Pauley

I'm not denying the women are foolish; God Almighty made them to match the men.

Aka George Eliot

True strength is delicate.

Louise Nevelson

If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem.

Glenda Jackson

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside it is more often his nursery.

Clare Booth Luce

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Dolores Ibarruri

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Oprah Winfrey

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

Susan Sontag

Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

Lois Wyse

You grow up the day you have you first real laugh at yourself.

Ethel Barrymore

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain.

Dolly Parton

I live by a man's code, designed to fit a man's world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick.

Carole Lombard

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Coco Chanel

The ultimate lesson all of us has to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Maya Angelou

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Lily Tomlin

Deleting messages

I've had a few requests from people to delete comments made by them on my blog. I don't know how to do that. I have tried but will have to consult an expert. If anybody has a clue to give, that would be most useful. Next time you want to make a comment, sit on it until you are objectively clear about what you want to say in a permanent way if you don't want to regret it later. Personal stuff is best left to less public mediums.

Pharaohs of their minutes

People tick by

Like so many moments

Pharaohs of their minutes

Clinging briefly to my precious Now

With desperate assertions

They consume their time

Pawing off into their Futures

Looking to me, now,

Like they are galloping into the Past.

Questions

I have just looked over comments made by u lot over my blog, and I noticed that the topics that attracted the most commentary are the ones about sex. What am I to make of that? R u lot sex crazed maniacs, or is it a natural phenomena? Is it something to take personally or would it happen that way for anyone? Am I a Sex God or are humans just fascinated by what bits do? Its pretty much a basic function that is given too much importance by simple psyches (so nature can play her little trick on us).

Quotes

Here are some quotes from notables. I am better at practising some then others, but the ideas are nice.

Re-examine all you have been told and dismiss whatever insults your soul.
Walt Whitman

The future is wider then vision and has no end.
Donald G Mitchell

At the centre of your being you have the answer: you know who you are and what you want.
Lao Tzu

We all have our own life to pursue,
Our own kind of dream to be weaving,
And we all have the power
To make wishes come true,
As long as we keep believing.
Louisa May Alcott

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Desiderius Erasmus

You cannot discover new oceans until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
Lord Chesterfield

Blame no one, expect nothing, do something!
Anon

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
St Francis de Sales

One of the most important milestones we'll hit along the way is the moment when we finally find our own unique point of view and realise how priceless it is.
Sara Ban Breathnace

A garden is a great teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all, it teaches trust.
Gertrude Jekyll

Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realise there is nothing lacking the whole world belongs to you.
Lao Tzu

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
Anon

Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering.
Buddha

We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.
Mary Dunbar

Water your dreams with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into a solution.
Lao Tzu

We do not receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us.
Marcel Proust

Keep company with those who make you better.
English saying

Make new friends,
But keep the old;
These are silver,
They are gold.
Joseph Parry

In order to have friends, you must first be one.
Elbert Hubbard

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done.
Antoine de Saint Exupery

The greatest thing anyone can do in this world is to make the most out of the stuff that has been given to them. This is success, and there is no other.
Orison Swett Marden

Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.
Kahlil Gibran

You are here to enrich the world.
Woodrow Wilson

Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose.
To the questions of your life, you are the only answer.
To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
Anon

The first step to getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
Chauncey Depew

Be thankful for everything that happens to you.
Anon

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us, but what attitude we bring to life.
Anon

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
Fredrich Nietzshe

Laugh a lot, and when you're older, the wrinkles will be in the right places.
Anon

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest event; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more reality and the world will go forth from it.
Rainer Maria Rilke

To be able to look back on one's life with satisfaction is to live twice.
Kahlil Gibran

Write your name on the face of life with big letters.
Kahlil Gibran

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent van Gogh

Confidence never comes from having all the answers; it comes frm being open to all the questions.
Anon

To live you have to experiment,
to have the ability to experiment
You have to have confidence,
to have confidence
you have to be loved,
to be loved,
You have to love.
Anon

Reflect on your present blessings, of which everyone has many.
Charles Dickens

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher.

Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Measure yourself by your best moments, not your worst.
Robert Johnson

Far and away the best prize is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt

Much effort, much prosperity.
Euripides

Everyone who got where they are, had to begin where they were.
Robert Louis Stevenson

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning.
Peter Abelard

Thought is the sculptor that can create the person you want to be.
Henry David Thoreau

If your real desire is to be good,
there is no need to wait,
you can do it now,
this very moment,
and where you are.
James Allen

Only as high as you reach can you grow,
Only as far as you seek can you go,
Only as deep as you look can you see,
Only as much as you dream can you be.
Karen Ravn

Give all you have, you may be poor but you will be content; Always forgive, your heart cannot afford not to; Teach what you know and learn what you don't.
Anon

Trust others and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Unicorn

The horse is a very interesting creature. They were once, in prehistoric times, tiny. The Arabic name for them translates as "Star dogs". Archaeologists and paleontologists are unsure where they evolved. Many a tradition declares their hooves cause the thunder or their breath causes the wind. They are sometimes associated with the ocean and its foam. They are large herbivores with physical power and intelligence.
In France there is a national park which contains a marshland. The surrounding lands are, like most European countries, heavily farmed and otherwise occupied by humanity. In this marshland there is a breed of small wild horse who, although born all different colours, mature into white coated adults. These are the wild horses of the Carmargue, along with their black oxen friends. Most faerytales and myths of unicorns originate from France. Could it be that the unicorn, in the past, found itself hunted and losing its habitat to farming, might have been cornered in the marshland where man had difficulty hunting or farming. And, if their numbers were down, could it be possible they bred in with the local wild horse. There is no reason for a horse to become white as it matures, most other animals turn white in winter for camouflage.
I suspect that the unicorn "horn" is actually a form of psychic focus arising from the horses third eye. If it was hair, nail, or bone we would have found evidence of it, unless it was ALL collected and used beyond recognition. That is the hypothesis any way.
The Roman description of a unicorn sounds remarkably like a rhinoceros, and probably was.
However, there are sources beyond the Empire, particularly the Gauls and France of a distinct white horse with a horn. It could just be that the white marsh horses were seen and there was a reason to believe it had a horn, or someone misinterpreted someone else, who may have been giving an example of spirituality or a trick of the eye.

Glow in the dark edges and peacock head-dresses

Marking edges and indicating objects in the dark with glow in the dark paint.

Painting glow in the dark edges or surfaces that are likely to be walked into or hard to find (like a light switch door or door knob) when walking in the dark (coming home at night, for instance). It could be used as a safety measure. So if u keep bumping into the kitchen bench or pillar in the dark as you get a drink at night or go to bed, mark it some appropriate way to taste with glow in the dark paint and your problem is solved.
Painting glow in the dark paint design to indicate light switches is also a good idea. So is marking a hard to find door, doorknob or lock. The design in that is completely up to you and your inclination. I would keep in mind that the more surface area painted with glow in the dark paint the greater the glow, so choose the design according how much glow you want, as well as whatever way u feel like doing it. If u want to paint something but can't because it isn't yours like your parents house or you are renting etc., You can paint a picture or an object and stick hang or place it appropriately.

Peacock feather head-dress

I was imagining a peacock feather head-dress sort of like the classic native American chieftain (in the style of movies with a similar mane of feathers) but instead of whatever bird of prey the classic head-dresses have, have peacock feathers. U could have a mane like display of peacock feathers, just like a peacock with their tail open, starting with smaller feathers at the bottom. I would choose a dark or shiny natural material to secure the base. I'm thinking course silk and lace but someone else might think metal or leather or semi-precious stones. You could use other feathers as well. Raven feathers would be cool! Lyre bird (theft, not murder!) feathers would be pretty over the top!
You could actually put peacock feather head wear into a myriad of other styles inspired by what we've found and is out there and also what can be done. If I could be bothered, I could look at all forms of feather styling thru all cultures and time and doing my own version with peacock feathers.
Anybody who thinks peacock feathers are unlucky (Such as inside where the eye of the peacock feather can cast its evil stare over all) are really missing out. Peacock feathers are a beautiful product of nature that do give us a glimpse of how awesome the cosmos can be, and if they are scared of something that gives so much, I think that's something that's not good. The superstition does more harm then the wondrous feather!