Melanie Jackson

"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house."

“My dear friends, they’re the best friends, each is loyal, trust-worthy and able.
But now it’s time for drinking, so lift all of your glasses off the table!”

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:
There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
Lulled in these flowers with dances and delight.
-Shakespeare

“May your heart be light and happy,
May your smile be big and wide,
And may your pockets always have a coin or two inside!”

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
-Roald Dahl

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers." ~ Charles William Eliot

Show Love to those you love, lest Love should fail;
Let not the Long Grass grow on Friendship's Trail.
~Arthur Guiterman

"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." ~ Miguel de Cervantes

Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Cáintear na fileadha
's ni hiad do bhionn cionntach;
Ni fachtar as na soighthighe
acht an Ián do bhios ionnta.
Men mock the poet for his want of wit,
Yet not the poet's is the fault of it;
Out of a little vessel you'll not gain
More than a little vessel can contain.
--Irish Epigram

She bid me take love easy,
as the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish,
with her would not agree.
She bid me take life easy,
as the grass grows on the weirs;
But I was young and foolish,
and now am full of tears.
-W B Yeats

Once sat women,
They sat here, then there.
Some fastened bonds,
Some impeded an army,
Some unraveled fetters:
Escape the bonds,
flee the enemy!
-"Lösesegen" (spell of the blessing of release)

Happy NATIONAL PLANT A FLOWER DAY! Let us go forth and make beauty (using plants that have not been sprayed with pesticides, of course ).

Looking for a reason to celebrate?

Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with. ~Robert Brault

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness. ~Robert Brault

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
-Michelangelo

That's life — whichever way you turn, fate sticks out its foot to trip you. ~Martin Goldsmith & Martin Mooney

Love knows no answer for it does not question. ~Silent Lotus

May God grant you many years to live,
For sure He must be knowing
The earth has angels all too few
And heaven is overflowing.

Little soldier with the golden helmet,
O What are you guarding on my lawn?
You with your green gun
And your yellow beard,
Why do you stand so stiff?
There is only the grass to fight!
-Hilda Conkling

I see cities as living creatures. To me Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman&it's a woman who's extremely vain. One of the great Catalan poets, Maragall, wrote Barcelona is the great enchantress&in which the city has this dark presence that seduces people.
-Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.”
― Zeno of Citium

I miss the romance. I keep saying this, but dance follows music. And if the accent today is percussion and rhythm and loudness, then that is the way the dance numbers will be. But it is pretty hard on romance with seven guitars, three drums, and no melody instruments in the band.
Gene Kelly

If God sends you down a stony path,
may he give you strong shoes.

"No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is." ~ C. S. Lewis

Oh, did you ne'er hear of the Blarney,
That's found near the banks of Killarney?
Believe it from me,
No girls heart is free,
Once she hears the sweet sound of the Blarney,
-Samuel Lover

"It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back." ~ Mick Jagger

"Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you." ~ Roy Rogers

"I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion." ~ Charlotte Bronte