Celeste Cosby-Barbier

The Secret, Johnathon Livingston Seagull, Siddartha, Wise Child, Lovely Bones, Anything by Anne Rice, Anything by Joseph Campbell, Spiritual or Mythological texts and books. Books on Music, holistic health, healthy recipes and lifestyles, travel, wine, pin-up girls, photography, art, botany, design, tattoos, ancient and primitive cultures, modern societies, philosophy, and poetry. "We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world." -Buddha"Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." -Jesus"My Child, Because you think you are the body, For a long time you have been bound. Know you are pure awareness. With this knowledge as your sword Cut through your chains And be happy! For you are already free, Without action or flaw, Luminous and bright. You are bound Only by the habit of meditation.- Ashtavakra 14-15"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost."  -Dali Lama"At the center of your being you have the answer;You know who you are and you know what you want." Lao-Tzu Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. - President Barack Obama Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others. - Ellen Degeneres “Creation is always happening. Every time an individual has a thought, or a prolonged chronic way of thinking, they’re in the creation process. Something is going to manifest out of those thoughts” -Michael Beckwith [IMG]http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk219/wizz558/sings/dr_house.jpg[/IMG] Why does God get all the credit when something good happens? - Dr. Gregory House (TV Show) "Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer." -Marilyn Monroe"We must be the change we wish to see." Mahatma Gandhi"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world." -Mother Theresa "When one brings spirit into the human realm, it can even spiritualize matter. Matter can then become lighter, indeed liberated, not so dense, as before." - Kwan Yin Wisdom“We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.” -Thich Nhat Hanh"I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun." -Katharine Hepburn "The unexamined life is not worth living." -Socrates "When you work with the fullness of heart, the golden heart, you find things are being done right you never realized were being done right. This occurs when there is balance and you have the perception to see the true value of things that come into your life. " -Sri Harold Klemp "Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist." -Margaret Cho "Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence." -Mourning Dove Salish"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love." -Martin Luther King, Jr."Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference." -Jane Goodall"It does not require many words to speak the truth." -Chief Joseph of The Nez Perce"The future starts today, not tomorrow." Pope John Paul II"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." -Helen Keller“The pure impulse of dynamic creation is formless; and being formless, the creation it gives rise to can assume any and every form.” -Kabbalah"I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being." -Confucius "You are never given a wish without being given the power to make it true.You may have to work for it, however." -Richard Bach, "The Adventures of A Reluctant Messiah""The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved." -Princess Diana“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.” -Hermann Hesse "It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." Leonardo De Vinci "If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it." Jesse Jackson “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” Dr. Wayne Dyer "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." -Maya Angelou “If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that” Johanne Wolfgang Von Goethe "There is a difference between wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it." Napoleon Hill I think so much depends on how you are feeling mentally and emotionally. I try to keep my head on tight, and try to feel good, and just go out there and not be afraid. - Delta Burke "Your thoughts and your feelings create your life. It will always be that way. Guaranteed." - Lisa Nichols “Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.” - Tori Amos “Are you a pauper or a superstar? So you act, so you feel, so you are!” India Arie "I've never been cool - and I don't care." - Celine Dion "Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back - a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country." Anais Nin "My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." -Oprah Winfrey“You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.” -Deepak Chopra"Let us not worry About the future.Let us only do the right thing Today,At this moment, Here and now.Let the future take care of itself.” -Sri Chimnoy"The most effective way to do it, is to do it." -Amelia Earhart"The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success." -Paramahansa Yogananda "God is subtle but he is not malicious." -Albert Einstein"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything." Malcolm X "Everybody does stupid things, it shouldn't cost them everything they want in life." - Dr. Gregory House (Character) "As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big."  Donald Trump "He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." Muhammad Ali"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." Walt Disney "Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity." George Carlin"Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it." Bill Cosby"If a (person) loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life." -Albert Schweitzer"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." -Henry David Thoreau "Everybody has a dark side and a light side as well... If you have an honest character, then both sides will come out." - Ellen Page "I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be." -Bob Dylan"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one." -Eleanor Roosevelt "The Quality of your Life is based on the Quality of the Questions you ask." Dr. John F. Demartini"Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply. And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker, to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being. It’s a phenomenal lesson." -Bob Proctor"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." Jimi Hendrix "I'm lucky to not have a real job, to be able to express myself, be creative and be relevant." - Gwen Stefani “It's when you cry just a little, but you laugh in the middle that you've made it.” - Jason Mraz “I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.” - Eddie Izzard Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist. Margaret Cho "I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn..t trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn..t think of myself as liberated, and I don..t believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn..t know any other way to be, or any other way to live." - Bettie Page "This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work." Bette Davis "Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance." St. Francis of Assisi “I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.” -Madonna