The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. ~ Frederic Lawrence Knowles

"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself." - Thich Nhat Hanh

"You get there by realizing you are already there."   ~  EckhartTolle

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its  animals are treated.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Do not resent growing old...many are denied the privilege.
~ old Irish Proverb

May the breeze which takes you on your journey 

be a gentle one. "Soave sia il vento."      ~Mozart

 "Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."  William James

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.   ~W. H. Hudson

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass: it's about learning to dance in the rain." Anonymous

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. --Stella Adler 

***See 2009 posts in archive (on right below) for video of ceramic pieces

"A day without laughter is a day wasted" ~ Charlie Chaplin

Music was my refuge.  I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.  ~Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name

Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do.
~Rumi

Our stumbling blocks are stepping stones.

Ruth Montgomery

Strangers Among Us

We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.

In the end we all want the same thing. We all want peace.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.

--St Fancis of Assisi

Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ~Norman Cousins