You are the Painter of Your Dreams

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
- Henry David Thoreau

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis

The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson

Take a moment to sit back, close your eyes,
and visualize what you wish for the world,
what you wish for the future of humankind.

Imagine peace. Imagine love. Imagine oneness.
Imagine whatever most speaks to your heart.
Whatever you can imagine, you can accomplish.
The canvas of life awaits You -
the painter of your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Affirmation:
I boldly paint my dreams upon the canvas of my life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Respect All Life

The Quiet Voice of Courage

How to Choose Your Life Purpose

Flexibility
    

Canvas to Your Imagination

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
- Henry David Thoreau

Imagine peace. Imagine love. Imagine oneness.
Imagine whatever most speaks to your heart.
Whatever you can imagine, you can accomplish.
The canvas of life awaits You -
the painter of your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis

Affirmation:
I boldly paint my dreams upon the canvas of my life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Take a moment to sit back, close your eyes,
and visualize what you wish for the world,
what you wish for the future of humankind.

Further reading: Respecting All Life

How to Choose Your Life Purpose

The Quiet Voice of Courage

Flexibility
    

Paint Your Life an Adventure

The biggest adventure you can take is
to live the life of your dreams.
- Oprah Winfrey

Paint Your Life an Adventure:
Paint your life in bright bold colors,
and shine your light into the darkness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye

I am the poet of my mind.
I am the painter of my heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Choose to Love Life

The Whole Leap

Be Curious - Be Adventurous
    

Power of Imagination

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
- Henry David Thoreau

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand,
while imagination embraces the entire world,
and all there ever will be to know and understand.
- Albert Einstein

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward

Live out of your imagination, not your history.
- Stephen Covey

Imagine peace. Imagine love. Imagine oneness.
Imagine whatever most speaks to your heart.
Whatever you can imagine, you can accomplish.
The canvas of life awaits You -
the painter of your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: How to Choose Your Life Purpose

Our Faith

Magic

Imagination

The Jump is So Frightening

Dream

Create

Imagine

The Canvas Of Life

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
- Henry David Thoreau

Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
- Walt Whitman

I am the poet of my mind.
I am the painter of my heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The canvas of life awaits You -
the painter of your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Affirmation:
I boldly paint my dreams upon the canvas of my life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: How do you have dreams again?

Practice Conscious Awareness

Living A Successful Life

I get by with a little help from my friends. - John Lennon

I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall

Be careful the friends you choose - for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous

Let today be a day to be grateful for all the friends who helped you along the road of life.

Further reading: How to Cope with Loneliness

Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now

Some people move our souls to dance - Flavia Weedn

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. -William James

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

A sense of humor... is needed armor. 

Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips 

is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
- Hugh Sidey

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps 

as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward

Some days are simply meant for playing.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Let today be a day to take life less seriously. Kick back, smile, laugh, watch the busyness of the world from a quiet corner and find humor in everything around you.

Further reading: 12 Life Lessons I Learned From My Cat

Listen to the compass of your heart - Mary Anne Radmacher

Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You are perfect. You are complete. Your inner voice always knows what to do, but it is a quiet voice. You can only hear the whisperings of your inner voice - your inner compass - when you turn down the volume of your fears, your regrets, your resentments, and the fear-based advice your neighbors are so willing to give you.

Today is your day to paint life in bold colors - jlh

Today is your day to paint life in bold colors,
set today's rhythm with your heart-drum,
walk today's march with courage,
create today as your celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Out with the gray! In with color; in with the juice of life.

Vision - Creation - Art? Each of us is an artist, but many are repressed artists. There is something of ourselves that cannot be expressed in words. Perhaps that something can be expressed in form or color, dance or music. If only with crayons or a tin drum, let that something that cannot be said move your hands or your body today.

New article: Feel Your Connection With the Infinite - a Meditation

Further reading: Be an Original

The Silver Lining of Losing Your Job

May your spirit soar

Today is your day to dance lightly with life. It really is. - jlh

Out with the gray! In with color; in with the juice of life.

 Paint Your Life In Bold Colors - jlh Out with the gray! In with color; in with the juice of life. Even from the darkest night songs of beauty can be born. - mar

Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy

Today is your day to smile broadly, sing loudly, paint your rooms in bold colors, search every rabbit hole for a magical white bunny, have caviar for breakfast and oatmeal for dinner, wear a purple coat with a red hat - a day to dance lightly with life. - jlh 

Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy; dash the last trace of your self-consciousness; and cavort your most uninhibited play. - jlh

Life looks more joyful when viewed from the back of a horse. - Suze Stewart

a quote from LIVE BOLDLY

it is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built. - mary anne radmacher