“Through the help of a number of guides
over a number of years,
I begin to see a new way to be, one rooted in the enduring truth:
There’s nothing to prove.”
Rob Bell
I absolutely love this image and couldn’t begin to tell you why - not just the color, the repeating stripes, the empty fields of grey to balance more active streaks of bright… it’s something more.
“Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.”
Shakespeare
“If you tell the truth,
you don't have to remember anything.”
Mark Twain
“To be yourself
in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else
is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The eye that looks ahead to the safe course
is closed forever.”
Paul Atreides
“And snow- snow is not my enemy, I tell him.
Snow is God’s way of telling people to slow down and
rest and
stay in bed for a day.”
Robert Fulghum
The photo that became the pattern…
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart
and
try to love the questions themselves…”
Rilke
“One naked star has waded through
The purple shadows of the night,
And faltering as falls the dew
It drips its misty light.”
James Whitcomb Riley
“I would rather lie facedown on the ground
and use my body as a bridge,
than stand proud and tall
and use my body as a wall.”
Kamand Kojouri
“If we walk far enough, we shall sometime come to someplace.”
Dorothy
“At the time it is all a confusion;
in retrospect it is
all a blur.”
Arthur Meier Schlesinger
“Fire that's closest kept
burns most of all.”
Shakespeare
“God gave us the gift
of life;
it is up to us to give ourselves the gift
of living well.”
Voltaire
"There rolls the deep where grew the tree,
O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
There where the long street roars hath been
The stillness of the central sea.
The hills are shadows, and they flow
From form to form, and nothing stands;
They melt like mist, the solid lands,
Like clouds they shape themselves and go."
Tennyson
“Once you have explored a fear,
it becomes less
terrifying.
Part of courage comes from extending our knowledge.”
Duke Leto Atreides
"And now that you don't have to be
perfect,
you can be good."
John Steinbeck
“Let us never negotiate out of fear.
But
let us never fear to negotiate”
John F. Kennedy
Creativity flourishes not
in certainty
but in questions.
Growth germinates not
in tent dwelling
but in upheaval.
Yet the seduction is always security rather than venturing, instant knowing rather than deliberate waiting.
Sue Monk Kidd
“Yesterday ended last night.
Today is a brand-new day, and it’s yours. “
Zig Ziglar
“There is gold, and an abundance of jewels;
But the lips of knowledge are a more precious thing.”
Proverbs 20:15
The photo that became the patterns…
