high heights

up yonder, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

-- Zig Ziglar

checking out, checking in

vacancy, originally uploaded by McBeth.

The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life.

-- HH the Dalai Lama

playful

cannonball, originally uploaded by McBeth.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

-- Plato

dragon slaying

storm breathing dragon, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

-- Alexandre Dumas Père

tango

slipstream, originally uploaded by McBeth.

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.

-- Emil Ludwig

relaxed fit

seventeen year old blues, originally uploaded by McBeth.

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

-- Yves Saint Laurent

waiting

texaco tammy, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Ten men waiting for me at the door?
Send one of them home, I'm tired.

-- Mae West

classics

studebaker, originally uploaded by McBeth.

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.

-- Scott Adams

devotion

humble servant, originally uploaded by McBeth.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

-- Henry Miller

kinship

brothers, originally uploaded by McBeth.

I bought my brother some gift-wrap for Christmas. I took it to the Gift Wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping.

-- Stephen Wright

war

blue star, originally uploaded by McBeth.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

-- Albert Einstein

rest

uh oh, she's down again, originally uploaded by McBeth.

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.

-- Martin Fraquhar Tupper

you stuck your mudgeon in my cur

queen pricklehead, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Curmudgeon: Anyone who hates hypocrisy and pretense and has the temerity to say so; anyone with the habit of pointing out unpleasant facts in an engaging and humorous manner.

cynicism

It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.

-- Molly Ivans

magnetic attraction

Ella's fork holder, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers.

-- Dave Barry

hear me out

hear me out, originally uploaded by McBeth.

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

-- Anthony Robbins

towering

above the market, originally uploaded by McBeth.

From what you would know and measure, you must take leave, at least for a time. Only after having left town, you see how high its towers rise above the houses.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

looking glass

looking glass, originally uploaded by McBeth.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

-- Nicholas Boileau

ssshh...

do you think he likes me, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

-- Ambrose Bierce

distractions make it easy to lose yourself

distractions make it easy to lose yourself, originally uploaded by McBeth.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

-- Ani Difranco