She held beauty close to her heart

Side By Side

'Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings
infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow,
if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible
for each to see the other whole against the sky.'

 ~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~

Exploring with a New Heart

 

'Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.'

~ Brian Greene ~

Bringing Forth

'Everything is gestation and then bringing forth.'

~ Rainer Marie Rilke ~

Celebrating Life

 

 

‘The more you praise and celebrate your life,

the more there is in life to celebrate.’

~ Oprah Winfrey ~

New Paths

 

 'We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, 

because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.'

~ Walt Disney ~

Courage...

'I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, 

but the triumph over it. 

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid,

 but he who conquers that fear.' 

~ Nelson Mandela ~

Journey

'Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach. 

Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, 

and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere -
on water and land.'

~ Walt Whitman ~

The Heart

"Because the mind is always engaged with whatever is happening now, 

it often forgets who we are. 

The heart never forgets. 

Everything of significance is inscribed there. 

The heart is an archive of all our intimate memory. 

What is truly felt leaves the deepest inscription...."

~ John O'Donohue ~

 

Remember your Wings

' Freedom is from within.'

~ Frank Lloyd Wright ~

Moving Forward...

'The difficulties you meet 

will resolve themselves as you advance.

Proceed, and light will dawn, 

and shine with increasing clearness 

on your path.'

~ Jim Rohn ~

Hope begins in the Dark...

'Hope begins in the dark, 

the stubborn hope that if you just show up 

and try to do the right thing, 

the dawn will come.
You wait and watch and work: 

you don't give up.'

~ Anne Lamott ~

Feeling...

Image by Nicholas Pastore

'I feel it now: there’s a power in me

to grasp and give shape to my world.

I know that nothing has ever been real

without my beholding it.

All becoming has needed me.

My looking ripens things

and they come toward me,

to meet and be met.'

~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~

Living Life

'In order to write about life,

 first you must live it.'

~ Ernest Hemingway ~

JOY

   

'Joy does not simply happen to us.

We have to choose joy 

and keep choosing it every day.' 

~ Henri Nouwen ~

Optimism

‘Optimism is a strategy for making a better future.

Because unless you believe that the future can be better,

you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.’

~ Noam Chomsky ~