This is a living page. I will update it with quotes and Bible verses as they speak to me.

• INSPIRATION: “Don’t listen to those who say, you’re taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don’t listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they’re all smarter than you out there. They’re more talented, they’re taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you’ll be a person worthy of your own respects.” Neil Simon, Playwright
• An unchecked heart on the sleeve can lead to an untamed chip on the shoulder. (Deana O’Hara)
• This is my life work: helping people understand and respond to this Message.God saw to it that I was equipped, but you can be sure that it had nothing to do with my natural abilities.” Eph. 3:7-8
• In the Middle Ages, they had guillotines, stretch racks, whips and chains. Nowadays, we have a much more effective torture device called the bathroom scale. ~Stephen Phillips
• We must never permit the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity’s sympathy with all creatures that makes us first human. – Albert Schweitzer
• G.K. Chesterton said mathematicians go mad, not poets, because mathematicians try to build a bridge across the infinite, while poets swim in the sea. — Glad I’m a poet. ;-D
• At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by: “I was hungry and you gave me to eat; I was naked and you clothed me; I was homeless and you took me in.” Hungry not only for bread – but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing – but naked for human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a room of bricks – but homeless because of rejection. Mother Teresa
• Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. ~Honoré de Balzac
• “Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”– St. Francis of Assisi
• Say what you want. Believe what you will. But it is by what you DO that we will know who you really are.”     ~ McNair
• Simply to refrain from talking without a heart listening to God, is not silence. – Richard J Foster
• Love is everything it’s cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. Erica Jong
• When love arrives, it can not be silenced. When it is from God, its path will never lead u where u are not meant to be. -unknown
• “Happiness is a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry under a shade tree.” ~Astrid Alauda
• “It is said that my heart is too open for my own good” -Henri Rousseau
• “Reading Bella’s thoughts in the book Twilight, makes my brain beg for death.” — my son, Charlie O’Hara

• Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.  Maya Angelo
• Waiting for things to change so you can feel good is like waiting for your reflection in a mirror to smile first. – unknown
• Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper even than reality. GK Chesterton – The biggest romantic in the universe? God. (jer 31:3) – I have loved you with an everlasting Love.
•  Every experience of beauty, points to eternity. – Hans urs von Balthsar
• Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. ~John Muir
• Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Ha! You want fame? The creator of the universe knows your name. The Alpha and Omega knows who you are and what you care about. That’s as famous as you’re ever going to be. Whose acknowledgment of you is going to stand up next to mine?” – Prodigal Jon
• I’ve learned that we can study the Bible, read books, attend church and listen to worship music as much as we want, but to really experience God, you have to go and live out what you believe. There’s only so much that God can teach us unless we actually step out of our comfort zones and walk in faith, trusting in Him even when the road ahead of us is dark — Michelle Kinsley
• I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, let me not be ungrateful to those teachers. – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
• “Then the time came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anais Nin
• “Why are you trying so hard to fit in? Don’t you know you were created to stand out?” – unknown.
• “Be the kind of woman who when your feet hit the floor in the morning, Satan says, ‘Crap! She’s up!” – Robbie Lobst
• Humor is a gentle way of revealing human frailty -Ken Davis
• We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. – Unknown – what I want to know, is what do I awaken in others? Joy, Love, Hope, Faith?
• God cares more about you, than He does your ministry – Ken Davis
• I have a boundary… – P dot J dot
• Serve to an audience of one Deana – always serve God and God alone. – P dot J dot
• “I am a little pencil in the hand of God who is sending a love letter to the world.” Mother Theresa
• A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens

Isaiah 62:1-5

Psalm 18:24 (The Message)