'Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.'

~ H. G. Wells ~

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 ~

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 ~

Glimpsing the Future

Image from The Hunter Valley Gardens

‘There is always one moment
in childhood when the door opens
and lets the future in.’

~ Graham Greene ~

Remembering together

Beth & Nicholas

'A year, ten years from now,

I'll remember this; not why,

only that we were here like this, together.'

~ Adrienne Rich ~

Love

 Image by Nicholas Pastore

'Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.'

~ Zora Neale Hurston ~

Music

'Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.'

~ Lao Tzu ~

The Beauty of Whole

'By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.'

~ Rabindranath Tagore ~