So check this out....
I'm giving it away....
the newly released book...
Book of Inspiration - Where Women Create - In The Studio and Behind the Scenes with Extraordinary Women
written by Jo Packham and Jenny Doh
I’m one of 23 artists who is profiled and whose art studios you get to look into (mine is the unruliest by far...) The book is filled with inspirational stories, tips and ideas galore.
All you have to do to enter the giveaway is write your favorite quote that never ceases to inspire you in my comments box below...and if you have a blog...tell your readers about the giveaway and link to my blog on your site. (this however is not mandatory to win,
but I thank you if you can...)
On June 13th I will print your quotes...cut them out...put them in a hat...and pick the lucky winner...Your chance to enter the giveaway will end on June 12th…check back on June 14th to see if you won…and if you did…we'll be in touch and I’ll be sending your book to you asap.
My favorite quote right now is this...found in the
365 days box of thoughts
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"The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start" John Bingham
This got me thru a serious illness. All I wanted to do that day is walk to the end of my driveway and back. It has become my mantra.
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, begin it well and serenely..."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nice give a way!
I am loving this book! What a cool giveaway! I hope your weekend is wonderful! Anne
I have many favourite quotes, but the one I have on my design wall right now is: "Every artist was first an amateur....Ralph Waldo Emerson"
My favorite quote is so weird..."Try not. Do or do not, there is no try." This Yoda quote from Empire Strikes Back (30 years old this week) leads me thru the hardest of time...
I've just encountered this quotation, and I think it is absolutely wonderful!
"It had long come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." -- Johann Goethe
I'm about to do a post on my blog linking back to this post!
Delighted that you're featured in another book (and it's cool that you're the most unruly. Unruly people are the sort who "go out and happen to things" as in the quote above.)
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." ~Buddha
The above is one of my favorite quotes and so true... and as I approach 54... it's beginning to sink in.
my favorite quote right now is: "The artist is the person who makes life more interesting, or beautiful, more understandable, or mysterious,or probably in the best sense, more wonderful"~ George Bellows thanks for the chance to win this awesome book too..
"Always be a little kinder than necessary" attributed to a few different people including Alexander Graham Bell.
"The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. "
Abraham Lincoln
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.--Abraham Maslow
One man with courage makes a majority.
Andrew Jackson
Well….. it does inspire me.
"Strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men"Acts 24:16
Thanks for the giveaway!
Hugs,
Noel
oh please count me in!!! I have so many favorite quotes but this is a relatively new one I found inspiring, " I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for, perfection is God's business." (Michael J. Fox)
"Our heads are round so that our thinking can change directions." (Francis Picabia)
Hope I´ll win!
Mine is short and sweet by Walt Whitman,
"Be curious, not judgmental."
My favorite quote is Treat others as you would wish to be treated.
Wow! love these quotes.....I am going to have to come back often to read as more are added!
I collect quotes, I have many favs but the one that I use most often is
'You were born an original, don't die a copy'
I was raised in a family where being individual and unique was extremely frowned upon.
It has taken alot of work to de-program myself and celebrate the uniqueness in me, of me, that is me.
Eternity has begun. I don't know if you'd call it a quote because it's a thought I have with me most of the time, but it's my favorite thought. Will that do? Congratulations on being featured in this magazine--how incredible!!
"Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some." – Robert Fulghum
Haven't seen it, but I bet it's fabulosity personified...
I like both of these:
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. Andre Maurois
There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time. Edith Wharton
I have used this quote since my 25 year old son was an unhappy middle schooler. "A person is as happy as he makes up him mind to be." Abe Lincoln. It still puts a smile our faces.
WOuld love to win the book!
Chris Tessnear
cqt144w@mindspring.com
www.creativeinspirations.blogspot.com and www.christessnearart.blogspot.com
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly." Buddha
This quote is from Wisdom of the East, 2010, desk calendar with a quote for each day. The words of wisdom on each page never fail to inspire and frequently offer comfort in difficult times.
Ruthee
My favorite quote is the following; "Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be," - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me."~ Elwood P. Dowd.
Thank you for such a wonderful contest......Would $5.00 help my chances????
My favorite quote right now is from Isaiah .... "O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires."
Fair colours and sapphires sounds so lovely!
Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
I have the Lincoln quote on my bulletin board along with a quote from Nell Carter: "I have never looked in a mirror and seen a person I didn't like."
Thanks got the giveaway!
Happy Monday,
Joanie
What a cool giveaway!
My favorite quote is from Ferris Bueller: "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." So true!
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland
"Life is short and we have not much time to gladden the hearts of those who travel this dark way with us: be swift to love, make haste to be kind." Henri-Frederic Amiel
I have carried this quote with me ever since I was in high school.
"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream." Vincent Van Gogh
"Look forward to everything."
(June 13th is my birthday.:>)
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.
PS--Just did a blog post and linked back to you. I've been collecting quotes for years and do an Encouraging Words post every Monday. Thanks for this inspirational giveaway!
One of my favorite quotes kind of sums up your loss of good old Jack Bauer.
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." I can't remeber who it's by.
"Go to your studio and make stuff."
Fred Babb
"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?" — Henry Ward Beecher
Short and to the point: "Failure is not an option." Gene Krantz, NASA Capcom Commander during the Apollo 13 crisis.~~I tell myself that often when I feel like giving up.~~Thanks for the chance to win this delightful book!~~~XXOO, Beth
"God does not sleep." -Marie Bodrogian (my great grandmother)
I have a blog just starting, so I will not be able to link at this time. I was glad to find this blog though, and have subscribed to it. Thank-you!
"If you're going through Hell, keep going."-Winston Churchill. When I'm going through hard times I always think of the British fighter pilots who faced overwhelming odds and death on a daily basis while defending their homeland against the Nazis during World War Two. My problems seem very trivial when I think of what those young men went through. I hope all of my fellow Veterans and everyone else has a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. I loved your pictures from your trip Angela!! I loved Hong Kong when I visited there while I was in the Navy. Take care, Richard.
Oz never did give nothin' to the TIn Man that he didn't already have.
"I am an artist. Suzi says so" (Suzi Blu)
So it must be true!! I have it hanging on my wall to remind me :-)
One of my favorite quotes is on a quilt of mine -"Life is what happens while you're making other plans." So true, so true...!!!
A lovely giveaway!!! Good luck to all!!! I'll post about this tomorrow!!
"THE untold want, by life and land ne’er granted,
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."--Walt Whitman
We all carry secret untold-wants. I like to remember that it's important to work towards those secret dreams. To give them a voice and know they are worthwhile.
My favorite quote is really the first line of a song "All you need is love"
What I lack in talent I make up in volume. :-)
(I spotted it in an ad in a computer magazine, but figure it is applicable to any sort of creative endeavor. If you're going to do good work, you have to start by DOING work.....)
OMG! what fab quotes!
I have some lovely ones, but right now I'm keeping my fingers crossed that you end up sending this book to New Zealand, I'm thinking:
'You've got to be in to win!'
:)) Carole
So many great quotes! I usually have one in front of my work table, and the change often. This is what's currently displayed:
"Knowing who you really are and dressing the part-with an air of amused recklessness-is life affirming for you and life enhancing for other people." Simon Doonan
I have many quotes which I like, the lates one is:
"Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it" - R. Tagor
Good luck to everyone,
Elena
I just saw this quote(by anon) on Mary Engelbreit's site - and just had to throw it in here for you!!!
"The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of a man."
"We can do no great things, only small things with great love."
-Mother Teresa
Humble and powerful at once.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-Mark Twain
Love your roses and your blog~
CHEERS!
My favorite quote is by Marianne Moore:
"No water so still as the dead fountains of Versailles."
I have used this in many, many art pieces.
No blog currently.
Margaret Shank
made_maka@hotmail.com
Wow, I'm reading through the quotes and some, combined with the music (What other blogger has Nessun Dorma as background music?), are givng me the chills.
Here's another one I like, from the Tempest or at least from the music by Purcell:
"Halcyon days, now wars are ending,
You shall find wheree'er you sail,
Tritons all the while attending
With a kind and gentle gale.
"See, see, the heavens smile,
With clouds no more o'ercast,
In this now happy isle
Are all your sorrows past.
"No stars again shall hurt you from above,
But all your days
But all your days
But all your days shall pass in peace and love."
We played this at my father's funeral. I believe on good evidence that it was the last piece of music he ever listened to, just days before he died. It never fails to bring me to tears.
And then in my beautiful, vital, golden mother's obituary:
"Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimneysweepers, come to dust."
Margaret
(Not for another entry, but just because I'm loving all these quotes.)
made_maka@hotmail.com
It reminds me of a piece of jade. The emerald light coming from within is refracted and dispersed according to the consistency of the impurities that gave it its quality.
Thomas D'Evelyn
If I win I can REVIEW you know where!!
People need to see that, far from being an obstacle, the world's diversity of languages, religions and traditions is a great treasure, affording us precious opportunities to recognize ourselves in others. - Youssou N'Dour
"The earth laughs in flowers" I think of this every time I see beautiful blooms in my new garden and in this desert I call home. My other favorite quote-"Never say never" by my mom.
I don't know where this comes from but my Mom used to tell me this when a difficult time turned up - "This too shall pass". She was a kind, cute little lady.
What a caterpillar calls the end of the world. The master calls a butterfly. Richard Bach
Thanks for the chance to win.
rjeverett@comcast.net
If you want to be happy, BE.
Tolstoy
Just one of my many favorite quotes. Thanks for the chance at the giveaway.
"Honor is a warm thing, a caressing thing. I'd rather go to bed with honor than a bank balance." Charlotte Rampling
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