Hope

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Thomas Carlyle

Otherwise known as Braveheart

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

William Wallace

Learning

We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.
Virginia Satir

Leisure

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David Thoreau

Pigs

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Frank Capra

The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded.
Jesse Eisenberg

#2 Pencil

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
Joyce A. Myers

Joy

Sitting a hot tub,,,,,, smoking a nice cigar,,,,,,, with a great cup of coffee,,,,,and it's snowing.....ahhhh... heavenly

Michelangelo

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo

But Damn the Living's Good

Rolled out of bed, shook my head, drank a homemade cup

Could not afford a Starbucks dang I need some luck

Had to drive a truck just to make a buck Johnny needs a glove

Maybe with a second job I can show how much I love

Wife is great, she says she’s late, Laugh and knock on wood

I ain’t making much of a living but damn, the living’s good

Ran out the door pedal to the floor knew I can’t be late

Fifteen other people need this job I really hate

The price of gas will kick your ass during baseball season

Really don’t believe a caribou could be the reason

Wife is great, she says she’s late Laugh and knock on wood

I ain’t making much of a living but damn, the living’s good

Seems like those folks in DC ain’t relating much to me

Watching on the TV there ain’t no sense in what I see

Wondering what they meant about that hope and change

I’ve got some empty pockets just ten dollars to my name

Wife is great, she says she’s late Laugh and knock on wood

I ain’t making much of a living but damn, the living’s good

Driving home, my mind’s alone thinking bout my wife

I’m a lucky man, praise the man, I really love my life

We’ll find a way, we fight to play, we love the USA

Hard work one day we know will pay that’s always been the way

Let’s celebrate the wife is late Laugh and knock on wood

I ain’t making much of a living but damn, the living’s good

Paul Mize & Hauk Heimdallsman © 2012

But Damn the Living's Good

Rolled out of bed, shook my head, drank a homemade cup

Could not afford a Starbucks dang I need some luck

Had to drive a truck just to make a buck Johnny needs a glove

Maybe with a second job I can show how much I love

Wife is great, she says she’s late, Laugh and knock on wood

I ain’t making much of a living but damn, the living’s good

Ran out the door pedal to the floor knew I can’t be late

Fifteen other people need this job I really hate

The price of gas will kick your ass during baseball season

Really don’t believe a caribou could be the reason

Wife is great, she says she’s late Laugh and knock on wood

I ain’t making much of a living but damn, the living’s good

Seems like those folks in DC ain’t relating much to me

Watching on the TV there ain’t no sense in what I see

Wondering what they meant about that hope and change

I’ve got some empty pockets just ten dollars to my name

Wife is great, she says she’s late Laugh and knock on wood

I ain’t making much of a living but damn, the living’s good

Driving home, my mind’s alone thinking bout my wife

I’m a lucky man, praise the man, I really love my life

We’ll find a way, we fight to play, we love the USA

Hard work one day we know will pay that’s always been the way

Let’s celebrate the wife is late Laugh and knock on wood

I ain’t making much of a living but damn, the living’s good

Paul Mize & Hauk Heimdallsman © 2012

Forward

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.
George C. Marshall

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

Lewis Carroll

Essence

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

First Step

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Irritation

Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point. 
Mark Twain

Danger

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler

Drawing

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
Henri Matisse

Followers

Most great leaders began in the capacity of followers.  They became great leaders because they were intelligent followers.


Napoleon Hill

Discovered on the Internet

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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali 

Writing

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.
Buddy Ebsen

Elements

Remember, that of all the elements that comprise a human being, the most important, the most essential, the one that will sustain, transcend, overcome and vanquish obstacles is - Spirit!
Buddy Ebsen

Up or Down

I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from that experience was that it's more difficult to go down a mountain than to go up. A lot of people don't realize that.
Glenn Ford

Treat

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. 
Og Mandino

Breathe

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

Black Elk

The Mind

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.


Plutarch

Art or Science

Art is I; science is we.
Claude Bernard

Music

Music is the medicine of the mind.
John A. Logan

Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso