Inspirational quote from oboe player

“You can’t save people from themselves.”
~ Melinda McKenzie

Melinda is a marvelous musician and music teacher who provided oboe playing for one of “Prayer, Duet, and Dance,” one of the musical numbers used as background music in the Yucatan Travel Movie.

Inspirational Quote on how to overcome perfectionism

“I have learned that there is not time in these days in life to make things perfect. Good enough almost always works just as well and no one knows the difference except you.”
~ Miriam Balsley

Miriam Balsley is the co-writer, narrator, and hostess of the Yucatan Travel Movie. She knows how to get things done.

Copyright (c) 2011 Miriam Balsley used with Permission

“God Bless Us, Everyone!”

from Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, spoken by Tiny Tim on Christmas.

Inspirational Quote from Movie Musician

A great inspirational quote from my friend Melinda McKenzie, who beautifully plays the oboe in “Prayer, Duet, and Dance,” a composition for piano or organ and oboe by Deborah L. Carr. I used part of this delightful and magnificent piece as background music in my movie Yucatan Travel: Cancun to Chichen Itza. The “dance” part of the composition is a tango – fantastic for giving a Spanish flair to a movie set in Mexico.

Here’s the inspirational quotation from Melinda:

“You can’t save people from themselves.“

Isn’t that great!

Happy Thanksgiving

We have so much to be thankful for. This morning I woke up to see an intensely blue-red sunrise under a bank of clouds. The weather prediction forecast rain. However, as the day progressed, the sun blazed down on the carpet of leaves surrounding our house. It only rained about a half hour just before sunset. The rest of the day was gorgeous. That’s something to be thankful for.

Inspirational Quote on Love

I’m working on my next book, Have Your Heart’s Desire. Each chapter is headed by an inspirational quote. There are so many wonderful quotes to choose from! Here’s a great inspirational quote from Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk now exiled in France.

“When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.”

Robert Fulghum Inspirational Quote

Robert Fulghum wrote All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. This quote is from his Uh-Oh.

“If I don’t have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over?”
— Robert Fulghum (Uh-Oh)

Woody Allen Inspirational Quote

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”

Woody Allen

A Lao Tzu Inspirational Quote

“People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.”
Lao Tzu

A George Bernard Shaw Quote

I’m looking for quotes to head up the chapters of my latest book called, Have Your Heart’s Desire. Here’s a George Bernard Shaw quote that I came across. I won’t use it in the book because the quote is inappropriate for a Law of Attraction type of book. However, it’s a great quote so I had to share it with you. You have probably had an encounter or two in your life with the following type of person:

“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.”

George Bernard Shaw