“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary!”

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LOVE

“In forgiving others, we forgive ourselves.”

The deepest definition of love is to understand, love itself is like a single grain of sand,  it can not be held in palm of ones hand, because its structure keeps repeating infinitely in man.” ~Amy Houck

“In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few of your words, rather than the applause of thousands of people.”

“Love shortens time, changes the hours. Love is invincible. Many waters cannot quench it nor the floods drown. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”

“I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz or an array of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as one loves certain dark things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.”

“Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature — and another woman to help him forget them.”-Helen Rowland

“When all is said and done, you are part of me. That’s the way it was meant to be. People are brought together for a reason, everything happens for a reason, if there is a reason for love, there is a reason for life beyond it.”

“…she walked alone with the blues, like harmony with no tune, nighttime with no moon, like love with no room…”. ~Amy Houck

Tell your sleeping beauty, stay asleep.. if she/he couldn’t love you as a beast…” -Klass Jones

“A tear drop is like a woman’s emotions….you never know if its a happy tear….or a sad tear….if you look at it… all tears look like…. You cant see emotions….you have to feel them” –My Mom (Susan Houck)

“You are protected because you are loved, not because you have the right to be.” ~Trina Harmon

MUSIC

“Music is the secret language of the spirit. It vibrates the center of our very being, where our deepest emotions have no words, only feeling and instinct. It is there we compose our understanding of what is unexpressed, discovering… the secret of life.”  ~Amy L Houck

“We are made in God’s image, so I imagine my mind….if God made the world in seven days…what can I do with my time”  ~Amy L Houck

“When the worlds asleep I’m here laying awake, dawn makes my heart dilate, in these peaceful hours I express my mind state, mellow, waiting for the morning to come, so the moon can kiss the suns face., yellow.” ~Amy Houck

“Money, fame, and riches, a hustler never quits, but the further ya get you loose chasing to gain some, casing the game son, YOU.  Forgot where you came from.” ~Amy Houck

“A cut is a scar on a surface that dies, A tear is souls pain running outta ya eye, A scream is like your cry to try to release, what your body cant handle, from the belly of the beast.” ~Amy Houck

“My passion cant settle, but love can make guns from scrap metal. Pain question the flowers petals, but I love me. Not, love me not, I remember what made me, maybe you forgot..” ~Amy Houck

A bird doesn’t sing because it has the answers, it sings because it has a song. ~Maya Angelou

UNIVERSE

As love dances across the soul, the power of intention releases in me the sweetest harmony that we, are all one. ~Amy L Houck

“Although we are constantly moving forward and outward, growth itself expands through the inward journey of self.” ~Amy Houck

“What we think is less then what we know: What we know is less than what we love: What we love is so much less than what there is; and to this precise extent, we are much less than what we are.” -RD LAING

“Life will not be a pyramid with its shape sustained at the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose center will be the individual.” –Mahatma Gandhi

“I am you.”

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (Acts 4:12)

“Some people rule themselves with their mind and say they base it on reality, but I rule myself with emotions, and know it is because it is our emotion that is closest to our soul and our soul closest to God” ~Amy Houck

“Were all broken stars, part of the bigger picture….. build your own stage and write your own literature.”   ~Amy L Houck

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”  Mother Teresa

“Our stories are singular but our destinies shared” Obama/ November, 4, 2008. Election Night

I am always here. ~GOD J

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -Gandhi

CAREER

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how molded we are to the idea of someone else’s dream…or how free we are to the individuality of our own”. ~Amy L Houck

“What should you do with your life?….. I suggest that there’s only one thing you can do with it, since you came into this life with nothing and you’ll leave with nothing, you can give it away. You’ll feel most on purpose when you’re giving your life away by serving others.”

“If you work for the love of work, not the love of money, you’ll avoid getting hurt, and always have plenty” ~Amy Houck

“All I need from anyone is love and respect, and anyone who can’t give me that has no business in my life.”

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”  –Albert Einstein

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.” Maya Angelou

“Our ability to dream lies on our  need to create.” ~Amy Houck

‘It is not who we are, but rather our intentions of who we are becoming.’ ~Amy L Houck

“Our deepest fear is not that we’re inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure…and Who are you NOT to be?” Marianne Williamson

THE INVISIBLE

“Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.”