Monday's Illustrated Word: "A Christmas for Shacktown" by Carl Barks (in English)

art & letters by Carl Barks -  Walt Disney's Christmas Parade #2 - Western, January 1964, originally printed in Four Color #367, Walt Disney's Donald Duck in A Christmas for Shacktown - Dell, January-February 1952.

Monday's Illustrated Word: untitled story by Carl Barks (in English).

art & letters by Carl Barks -  Walt Disney's Christmas Parade #2 - Western, January 1964, originally printed in Four Color #367, Walt Disney's Donald Duck in A Christmas for Shacktown - Dell, January-February 1952.

 

Quotes from Walt Disney (in English)

The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn't really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that.

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin Flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.'

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

“Você Já Foi à Bahia?” by Dorival Caymmi (in Portuguese)

Você já foi à Bahia, nega?

Não?

Então vá!

Quem vai ao Bonfim, minha nega

Nunca mais quer voltar

Muita sorte teve

Muita sorte tem

Muita sorte terá

Você já foi à Bahia, nega?

Não?

Então vá!

Lá tem vatapá!

Então vá!

Lá tem caruru

Então vá!

Lá tem munguzá

Então vá!

Se quiser sambar

Então vá!

Nas sacadas dos sobrados

Da velha São Salvador

Há lembranças de donzelas

Do tempo do imperador

Tudo, tudo na Bahia

Faz a gente querer bem

A Bahia tem um jeito

Que nenhuma terra tem!

This song was used by Disney in the 1944 movie "The Three Caballeros", by the title of "Have You Been to Bahia?" sung by Aloysio de Oliveira (as Joe Carioca) and Clarence Nash (as Donald Duck).

 

“Você já foi à Bahia?” sung by Astrud Gilberto - 1966.