May 2012
9 posts
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it, regardless of the possible outcome.
Golda Meir
“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“A good photographer must love life more than he does photography.”
Joel Strasser
AH, I love this! Psychic Land by Pablo Gostanian
produce produce produce produce produce produce produce
To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world. Karl Barth
strength and courage
I’m 29!
We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
Mother Theresa
April 2012
7 posts
the final word
is not no
but yes
in due time
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Anais Nin
Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.
Thomas Disch
Hope
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune—without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I’ve heard it in the chillest land, And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me. Emily Dickinson
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” ”
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“As it turns out, you are very, very small. Think grain-of-sand-on-the-bottom-of-the-Atlantic small. All these things you think are so important now - love, work, art, money - they don’t matter. Be grateful and kind; there is nothing more important than that.”
- Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
“I do not have a cause. I have a Heavenly Father, a merciful Master, a gracious...
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seed you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
March 2012
5 posts
I made a clean getaway.
“YOU CAN’T CONTINUE TO INNOVATE IF YOU’RE TOO TIRED TO DO YOUR BEST WORK. LEAVE TIME TO REST, RESTORE AND BECOME INSPIRED.”
-‘Saying No’, Grace Bonnie, Design Sponge
my sometimes messy ways have been validated. it’s merely because I’m a creative genius. #ha
http://anthologymag.com/blog3/2012/03/02/the-dig-picassos-abode/
“I’m interested in people who are outliers—in men and women who, for one reason or another, are so accomplished and so extraordinary and so outside of ordinary experience that they are as puzzling to the rest of us as a cold day in August.”
Thank you for this, Malcolm Gladwell.
February 2012
2 posts
“Life is a beach I’m just playin’ in the sand”
Lil Wayne, Right Above It
You will go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills
will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field
will clap their hands.
Isaiah 55:12
January 2012
1 post
December 2011
9 posts
Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
Audrey Hepburn
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
Zora Neale Hurston
“I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.”
Brenda Uelan
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
Jack...
“I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.”
Audrey Hepburn
“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”
Stephen Grellet
November 2011
32 posts
vamos a dejar el pasado atras
“Spread love wherever you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”
Mother Teresa
“It’s all about your determination. There are a lot of people with talent… I would go to sleep down and wake up in the morning optimistic. The thing is that no one writes unless they have to, so if you have to write, because it’s inside you, then you will.” Judy Blume Often Banned, but Widely Beloved, NPR
This is what you need to remember about power: the less you use it, the more of it you have.
Walter Roig
whatever blessing each flake of snow is the hint of, I am grateful, I bear witness, I hold out my arms, palms up
“Let’s borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel our lives have been too restrained.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
Facebook Posts that Inspire Me
“Whenever I feel burnt out, I read Ecclesiastes and remember that I will be dead soon and almost immediately forgotten, and that all my work here is kind of like draining the ocean a bucketful at a time.
Thanks to some strange chemical imbalance of mine, this makes me feel a little better.” Trevor Babcock
“Girl you are all light and beauty. Imagination unleashed in you will...
There will be a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. Louis l’amour
He stumbled into faith and thought God, there is all there is The pictures in his mind arose And began to breathe And all the gods and all the worlds Began colliding on a backdrop of blue
Blue lips, blue veins Blue, the color of our planet From far, far away
He took a step but then felt tired He said I’ll rest a little while But when he tried to walk again He wasn’t a child...
“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
“I realized I let the idea run ahead of me.
Joan was there the whole time.
I almost missed the moment.
… She is very present.”
Annie Leibovitz, speaking about photographing Joan Dideon
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live...
Yellow Trees of Hope
happy I found you today.
