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Thursday’s inspirational proverb

February 1, 2008

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

A Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

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3 comments

  1. I know a variation on the thousand mile journey. It is that the expert at anything, was once a beginner. That’s a good one for me, because I want to so some other kind of craft besides making jewelry and I keep feeling daunted by how much there is to learn.

         by Would be Wise February 8, 2008 at 9:31 pm

  2. Ah! But as once mentioned to me – remember Grandama Moses.
    Moses began painting in her seventies after abandoning a career in embroidery because of arthritis. Louis J. Caldor, a collector discovered her paintings in a Hoosick Falls, New York drugstore window in 1938. In 1939, an art dealer, Otto Kallir, exhibited some of her work in his Galerie Saint-Etienne in New York. This brought her to the attention of art collectors all over the world, and her paintings were highly sought after. She went on to exhibit her work throughout Europe and in Japan, where her work was particularly well received. She continued her prolific output of paintings, the demand for which never diminished during her lifetime. Grandma Moses painted mostly scenes of rural life. Some of her many paintings were used on the covers of Hallmark cards.

    Here is a famous fitting quote from Grandma herself:

    “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”

    So… as Grandma also said: “If I hadn’t started painting, I would have raised chickens”

    You don’t want to raise chickens do you?

         by nottoworry February 9, 2008 at 6:34 pm

  3. No, I don’t want to raise chickens, but I might want to use feathers.

         by Would be Wise February 11, 2008 at 9:23 pm

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