QuotesQuoteshttp://basic-joy.com/quotes/2010-04-15T19:28:46ZSquarespace-http://basic-joy.com/quotes/2010/4/15/i-cant-give-you-a-surefire-formula-for-success-but-i-can.htmlAnne2010-04-15T19:28:16Z2010-04-15T19:28:16ZI can't give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
~Herbert Bayard Swope
]]>-http://basic-joy.com/quotes/2010/4/9/cling-to-simplicity-sincerity-serenity-and-the-power-of.htmlAnne2010-04-09T17:51:49Z2010-04-09T17:51:49ZCling to simplicity, sincerity, serenity, and the power of truth.
~I Ching
]]>-http://basic-joy.com/quotes/2010/2/12/the-most-exciting-movement-in-nature-is-not-progress.htmlAnne2010-02-12T22:53:52Z2010-02-12T22:53:52Z"The most exciting movement in nature is not progress, advance, but expansion and contraction, the opening and shutting of an eye, the heart, the mind. We throw our arms wide with a gesture of religion to the universe; we close them around a person. We explore and adventure for a while and then draw in to consolidate our gains...the breathless swing is between subject matter and form."
~Robert Frost
]]>-http://basic-joy.com/quotes/2010/1/14/you-must-have-a-room-or-certain-hour-of-the-day-or-so.htmlAnne2010-01-14T22:21:53Z2010-01-14T22:21:53ZYou must have a room, or certain hour of the day or so, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don't know who your friends are, you don't know what you owe anybody, you don't know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.
~Joseph Campbell
]]>-http://basic-joy.com/quotes/2009/12/28/love-shared-anywhere-transforms-situations-everywhere.htmlAnne2009-12-28T18:35:20Z2009-12-28T18:35:20ZLove shared anywhere transforms situations everywhere. Your life is your corner of the garden; tend to that and you tend to the world
~Marianne Williamson
]]>-http://basic-joy.com/quotes/2009/12/21/you-are-educated-when-you-have-the-ability-to-listen-to.htmlAnne2009-12-21T20:58:10Z2009-12-21T20:58:10ZYou are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
~Robert Frost
]]>-http://basic-joy.com/quotes/2009/12/21/but-i-always-think-that-the-best-wayto-know-god-is-to.htmlAnne2009-12-21T20:00:41Z2009-12-21T20:00:41ZBut I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things
~Vincent Van Gogh
]]>-http://basic-joy.com/quotes/2009/12/21/practicing-an-art-no-matter-how-well-or-badly-is-a-way.htmlAnne2009-12-21T20:00:27Z2009-12-21T20:00:27ZPracticing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
~Kurt Vonnegut
]]>-http://basic-joy.com/quotes/2009/12/21/the-purpose-of-life-is-to-live-it-to-taste-experience-to.htmlAnne2009-12-21T20:00:05Z2009-12-21T20:00:05ZThe purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
]]>-http://basic-joy.com/quotes/2009/12/21/man-often-becomes-what-he-believes-himself-to-be-if-i.htmlAnne2009-12-21T19:59:39Z2009-12-21T19:59:39ZMan often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.