Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Sharon Begley
“Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush every fear and to hide every pain.”
– Unknown
Nothing, I learned, brings you into the present quite like holding hands. The past seemed irrelevant; the future, unnecessary.
Catherine Lowel
"The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the color that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.
-Ram Charan
Sham gulabi, sehar gulabi
Pehar gulabi ya gulabi ye shehar
Main bhi gulabi, tu hai gulabi
Din bhi gulabi hai, gulabi yeh kehar..
There is much to be said for cherry blossoms, but they seem so flighty. They are so quick to run off and leave you. And then just when your regrets are the strongest the wisteria comes into bloom, and it blooms on into the summer. There is nothing quite like it. Even the color is somehow companionable and inviting.
— Murasaki Shikibu
Therefore the love which us doth bind,
But fate so enviously debars,
Is the conjunction of the mind,
And opposition of the stars.
Andrew Marvell
Iron sharpens iron," I quoted the old proverb. "If she is made of fine silk and you of iron, she will smother you. Or perhaps you will shred her.
Jody Hedlund
I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us.
Marianne Williamson
“When connections are real, they simply never die. They can be buried or ignored or walked away from, but never broken. If you’ve deeply resonated with another person or place, the connection remains despite any distance, time, situation, lack of presence, or circumstance. If you’re doubtful then just try it — go and revisit a person or place and see if there’s any sense at all of the space between now and then. If it was truly real, you’ll be instantly swept back into the moment it was before it left — during the same year and place with the same wonder and hope, comfort and heartbeat. Real connections live on forever.”
— Victoria Erickson
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.
We are not trapped by our thoughts. What we generally do, however, is create thoughts that trap us.”
Joshua David Stone
Bob Dylan
It is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.
Jhumpa Lahiri
If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it—through the words you use to describe yourself, the actions you take to care for yourself, and the choices you make to express yourself. Tell the world you are one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated.
Erik Pevernagie
how would you paint me?
With deep solid strokes
or your brush sweeping softly?
Would you paint me by number,
quickly fill in the lines
or sketch me first,
taking your time?
Would you use vibrant colors
or plain shades of gray?
Would you change me in any way?
Would you hang me proudly
and gaze at me often
or tuck me away
until I'm forgotten?
~Christy Ann Martine
If somebody steps on your shoes and ruins them, don't freak out.. get a new pair of shoes. If you miss something, don't freak out.. there's nothing you can do to change it.. just move on.
The more I drive myself into the depth of my inside, the more things come up to my vision, visibly or invisibly... I even do not know if I am seeing them with my eye or with my mind. I just need to copy them on my canvases. But this mental process is always overwhelming. I often have hard time to deal with my emotion on this state. You could call this depression on surface? But actually, so many 're-birth' and 'reform' are going on on my thoughts, inspiration, philosophy...etc in the underwater. I believe this struggle make my art real. My art always comes from my emotion.
Hiroko Sakai
– Meredith Grey
And everything under the sun is in tune
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon.
"There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact
it's all dark."
-Pink Floyd
If you have met one, hold on to her, she'll allow you into her chaos but she'll also show you her magic.
Nikki Rowe
Napoleon Hill
Anthony Liccione
"Do you love me?" I ask.
In your hesitation I found my answer.
-Lang Leav
Tom Reiss
Starhawk