Philosophical...Thoughts on Life

 
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#203 "If" The classic by Rudyard Kipling..."IF you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you...If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too..." Four stanzas on 11" x 17" parchment paper. Check out new style below.

#203B "If--same poem, but created with a blue-green background, matted and framed in an 11" x 14" frame. Free Personalizing!

#1150 "If For a Young Woman" Jacqueline's feminine version of Kipling's masculine "If"...written is a different style. "If you can look within and accept with love and compassion every virtue and every scar..." A great personalized gift!

#890 "Life is not a journey to the grave with a well-preserved body...."Wow, what a ride!"

#2500 "Amendment One: Women's Contributions I created & hand-lettered this unique 18" x 24" limited edition poster to celebrate one hundred women's contributions to the four freedoms. PERSONALIZE YOUR GIFT WITH the recipient's name and accomplishments hand lettered.

#8278 "I'm not Going to Wait until I'm an Old Woman to Wear Purple.." No time like the present to be free!

#8186 "If I can stop one Heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain..." by Emily Dickinson

#8316 "Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision' but TODAY will lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day." Ancient East Indian saying from the Sanskrit.

#8330 "There are unconscious processes which live us until we learn to make them conscious and live them."Carl Jung

#1376 "To thine own self be true, & as night follows day, thou canst not be false to anyone." Wm. Shakespeare

#8263 "What is as important as knowledge...caring & seeing with the heart....

#8327 "Don't worry about arriving; the journey itself is your HOME." written by Jacqueline Shuler

#8310 "Your Thoughts are your Wings or your Chains" written by Jacqueline Shuler

#1432 "Those who work with their hands, heads & hearts are artists." A tribute to the total focus of the artist.

#218 "Ben Franklin on Freedom...After 200 years, I wish I could rise up and stand once more on Pennsylvania land...I know it will be free...I wonder how I should find those Americans to whom the name American will not be new. Will they love liberty being given it outright in the crib for nothing? Will they know if you are not free, you are lost without hope?...."

#8344 "What is REAL?" The famous question (written in the 30's) was asked by the plush rabbit to his toy horse friend. "It doesn't happen to people who break easily or have sharp edges or have to be carefully kept..."

#8342 "Thoughts are things; thoughts have wings. They fly away from us and land on those we love and those we hate....You become what you think..." written by Jacqueline Shuler

#1387 "Desiderata" Whether or not it is clear to you, the universe is unfolding as it should..."
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#1414-8 "One of life's illusions is that the present hour is not the critical hour. Write it on your heart that EVERY DAY is the best, the most crucial day in all the year. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#1101 "Native American Way of Life" by Tecumseh, a brilliant warrior/leader. "Trouble no man about his religion...seek to live a long life in service of your people...Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you do not see any reason to give thanks, the fault is yours."


There are many more inspiring philosophical writings which I have gathered from the Native American tradition.
" See them listed under Native American Gifts. "

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