I'm still humming "It had to be you"......thanks
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A new idea of a scrapbook.
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Reyna
Columbus, Ohio
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony. ~ William Henry Channing
We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been - a place half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time. Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power. Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us where we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free. ~ Starhawk
ON ELEGANCE
Definition: el·e·gance,
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. ~ Edsger Dijkstra
Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands in it a little more of elegance and intensity; then, multiplying all these minute pressures toward the perfecting and deepening of each life by all the others, calculate for yourselves the gigantic enrichment, the fabulous ennobling which this process would create for human society.
Nature is always with us. It is self-supporting. In the forests of Nature we can be savages with impunity. We can likewise resolve never to cease being so, without further risk than the coming of other peoples who are not savages. But, in principle, it is possible to have peoples who are perennially primitive. Breyssig has called these peoples "the peoples of perpetual dawn," those who have remained in a motionless, frozen twilight, which never progresses towards midday.
This is what happens in the world which is mere Nature. But it does not happen in the world of civilization which is ours. Civilization is not 'just there,' it is not self-supporting. It is artificial and requires the artist or the artisan. If you want to make use of the advantages of civilization, but are not prepared to concern yourself with the upholding of civilization - you are done. Just a slip, and when you look around everything appears in its native state, just as if curtains covering pure Nature had been drawn back. The jungle is always primitive and, vice versa, everything primitive is mere jungle. ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement. ~ Abba Eban
The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance. ~ Sylvia Kristel
For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is. ~ Christian Lacroix
The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it. ~ Diana Vreeland
Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal. ~ Diana Vreeland
Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. ~ Edna Woolman Chase
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with an excellency of heart. ~ Henry Fielding
Deciding what to wear beyond the dress is not easy, but it makes the difference between elegance and non-elegance. The wrong accessories are the most common mistakes women make. ~ Giorgio Armani
Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring. ~ Carmel Snow
It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage. ~ Samuel Johnson
The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords, does not understand the art of music. ~ Camille Saint-Saëns
A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is. ~ Leo Frankowski
ON STYLE
Definition: style, n.
What is style? For some, it’s just an advanced form of fashion, a kind of consistent rightness about clothes that distinguishes the would-be chic from the real elite. For others, it’s a more general phenomenon, a heightened awareness of decorating and entertaining as well as of clothes. And for still others, it’s the ultimate expression of character, a way of transforming the vulgarity of existence into a living work of art. – The Power of Style, Tapert & Edkins
Style is about surviving, about having been through a lot and making it look easy. ~ C.Z. Guest
Style is what makes you different. ~ Jacqueline de Ribes
With style you must stay as you are. ~ Givenchy
To my mind, simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance…a really well-dressed woman in her afternoon clothes should be able to pass through a motley crowd unnoticed, but should create a mild sensation on entering a drawing room among the knowing elite. ~ Coco Chanel
Anyone past the age of twenty who looks into the mirror to be pleased is a fool. You see the flaws, not the beauty. Beauty is charm. ~ Coco Chanel
It’s not the houses I love, it’s the life I live in them. ~ Coco Chanel
A woman’s unhappiness is to rely on her youth. Youth must be replaced by mystery. ~ Coco Chanel
He who does not enjoy his company is usually right. ~ Coco Chanel
Jewelry is not meant to make you look rich, it’s meant to adorn you, and that’s not the same thing. ~ Coco Chanel
I won’t be here forever, but my spirit will be and my style. They remain. ~ Coco Chanel
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. ~ Fred Astaire
My style was always to spread out rather than to move up. ~ Andy Warhol
I thought I'd take style to its limit… My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck, self-confidence, and pride. ~ Grace Jones
Cultivate your own capabilities, your own style. Appreciate the members of your family for who they are, even though their outlook or style maybe miles different from yours. Rabbits don't fly. Eagles don't swim. Ducks look funny trying to climb. ~ Chuck Swindoll
If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer. ~Francois Voltaire
Finding your personal style is a rich journey of discovery, wonder, adventure, and excitement. ~ Alexandra Stoddard
One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes the virtues, ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance. ~ Gloria Vanderbilt
Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world. ~ George Bancroft
Style may be defined, proper words in proper places. ~ Jonathan Swift
Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Style is primarily a matter of instinct. ~ Bill Blass
To do a dull thing with style - now that's what I call art. ~ Charles Bukowski
ON EVENTS
Definition: event , n.
a. something that takes place; an occurrence.
b. significant occurrence or happening.
c. asocial gathering or activity
d. the final result; the outcome.
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order: the continuous thread of revelation. ~ Eudora Welty
Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished. ~ Quoted
Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late. ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well. ~ Epictus
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. ~ Marcus Aurelius
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go. ~ Richard Bach
To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control. ~ T.S. Eliot
There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. ~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is no time or space separating events. ~ Marshall McLuhan
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us-and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning. ~ Louisa May Alcott
Thus a remembered object (event) is remembered as mine. ~ Samuel Alexander
In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about. ~ David Amram
When I'm at each event, I focus on that event. ~ Michael Andretti
I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine. ~ John James Audubon
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. ~ Gaston Bachelard
Dancing, my favorite social event. ~ Dirk Benedict
People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of. ~ Nellie Bly
God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction. ~ Harold Brodkey
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the event by; it is good and made by a good workman. ~ Jean de la Bruyere
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. ~ Edmund Burke
Some events define and shape history with the force of plate tectonics, moving the world onto a new path. On September 17, 1787, just such an event occurred when the Constitution of the United States was signed. ~ Robert Byrd
Each song is a look or glimpse into an event or an experience. I think each album just reflects a period of life. ~ Sheryl Crow
I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it. ~ Don DeLillo
These indelible footprints really capture the dignity and profundity of the event. ~ Daniel Libeskind
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it. ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire. ~ Honore de Balzac
