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“A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”
Richard Avedon
"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead…
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."
Louisa May Alcott
"The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with' only to discover that they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge into your life at the times when it seems most important for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will."
Ingrid Bengis
“If you're photographing in color you show the color of their clothes - if you use black and white, you will show the color of their soul.”
Author Unknown
“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best, than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.”
Margaret Mitchell
“It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.”
Franz Liszt
"Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to."
Alfred A. Montapert
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle.
The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.”
Ayn Rand
“As I started to picture the trees in the storm, the answer began to dawn on me. The trees in the storm don't try to stand up straight and tall and erect. They allow themselves to bend and be blown with the wind. They understand the power of letting go. Those trees and those branches that try too hard to stand up strong and straight are the ones that break. Now is not the time for you to be strong, or you, too, may break.”
“To 'let go' does not mean to stop caring;
it means I can't do it for someone else.
To 'let go' is not to cut myself off;
it is the realization that I must not control another.
To 'let go' is not to fix;
but to be supportive.
To 'let go' is not to be in the middle
arranging all the outcomes;
but to allow others to effect their destinies.
To 'let go' is not to be protective;
it is to permit another to face reality.
To 'let go' is not to regret the past;
but to grow and live for the future.
To 'let go' is to fear less and love more.”
~~ Author Unknown ~~
“A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Do you know what happens to scar tissue?
It's the strongest part of the skin.”
Michael R. Mantell
“Truly it is in the darkness that one finds the light,
so when we are in sorrow,
then this light is nearest of all to us.”
Meister Eckhart
“It is not the critic who counts; Not the person who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the person who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; Who strives valiantly; Who errs, and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; But who does actually strive to do the deeds; Who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; Who spends him/herself in a worthy cause; Who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worse, if he/she fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his/her place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Blushing is the color of virtue.”
Diogenes
“If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.”
Jean Baptiste Molière
“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
David Russell
and yearns to live life with reckless abandon.
There is also the part
which relishes in the comforts of home,
and needs the well known and predictable.
There is another part which is swiftly abrupt;
with opinion and judgment.
and also a part,
too forgiving and soft for this world.
another part is cynical and skeptical.
beyond reason or logic.
Another part can harshly sever ties,
if betrayed or deceived.
Another part, shut tight.
another part, timid and cautious.
another part which requires the sanctity of isolation.
One part, manicured conventionalist.
One part American.
wide contradictions and irony.
All parts seeking,
truth,
purpose,
meaning.
-grassrootsmsw
“I am destined to move at night on the secondary
roads of the American dream. I took my first off ramp
after traveling under someone
else's direction and now I draw my own roads.
My life does not cadence to traffics or crowds.
Its rhythm swings on the porch with the firelies.
I travel at the speed the wind blows...stopping at
the magical places. Singing the one clearest note.
Cracking open an awareness of things more
beautiful than once thought possible.”
Gladys the Brave
“Take care of all your memories…For you cannot relive them.”
Bob Dylan