Positive Song of the Day

Michael Franks follows the blueprint to treasure in his song "Chemistry of love"

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
― C.G. Jung

Love...a Valentine Day Wisdom

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

-Lao Tzu

Happiness Quotes

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions- the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or a heartfelt compliment.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

-Ariel Gore

A Soul Connection

Positive feelings between people translate in connections. How deep a connection can be? American psychotherapist J. Welwood integrates psychological concepts from the West with Eastern spiritual philosophy. His answer for a deep connection is a soul connection.  

     A soul connection is a resonance between two people who respond to the essential beauty of each other’s individual natures, behind their facades, and who connect on this deeper level. This kind of mutual recognition provides the catalyst for a potent alchemy. It is a sacred alliance whose purpose is to help both partners discover and realize their deepest potentials. 

     While a heart connection lets us appreciate those we love just as they are, a soul connection opens up a further dimension… seeing and loving them for who they could be, and for who we could become under their influence.

     This means recognizing that we both have an important part to play in helping each other become more fully who we are. A soul connection not only inspires us to expand, but also forces us to confront whatever stands in the way of that expansion.

- J. Welwood

Steve Jobs Quotes

I think of most things in life as either a Bob Dylan or a Beatles song.

When you are a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you are not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you are going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, has to be carried all the way through. 

You have to trust in something- your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

It's been one of my mantras- focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

Another Sunset in Paradise

Sunset, Rio de Janeiro

"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever."

-Horace Mann

Peter Pan

Heaven's Trail Ireland

"All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust."

“So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!” 

Fairy of Song/Bograd Kids  

 “When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.” 

The Fairy of Vitality/Bograd Kids Collection

"Fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.” 

“You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.” 

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.” 

-J.M. Barrie. Peter Pan.

Einstein's Quotes

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. 

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. 

-Albert Einstein

Stars

All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems... But all these stars are silent. You-You alone will have stars as no one else has them... In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars will be laughing when you look at the sky at night..You, only you, will have stars that can laugh! And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me... You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure... It will be as if, in place of the stars, I had given you a great number of little bells that knew how to laugh. 

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Friends

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

-Thomas Jefferson

Creativity

Painting my Marta De Andres

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture, and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness, of fear and pleasure; it’s a little like making love, the physical act of love.

-Francis Bacon

Johnny Depp Quotes

Creative Art by Jeannette Woitzik

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet. 

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.