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Visual Soliloquy #57 Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss…

Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land. –Carter Hayward [tags 2010, Visual Soliloquy, Photography, Quotes, Nature, Travel]

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Visual Soliloquy #56 Be careful what you water your dreams with…

Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on … Continue reading

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Visual Soliloquy ##55 Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home…

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. –Matsuo Basho

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Visual Soliloquy #54 There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief…

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. –Aeschylus

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Visual Soliloquy #53 Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment…

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. –Jim Rohn

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Visual Soliloquy #52 Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth…

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. –Robert Neelly Bellah

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Visual Soliloquy #51 You can never step into the same river…

You can never step into the same river; for new waters are always flowing on to you. –Heraclitus of Ephesus

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Visual Soliloquy #50 Today is your day, your mountain is waiting…

Today is your day, your mountain is waiting, so get on your way. – Dr Seuss

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Visual Soliloquy #49 Time is a sort of river of passing events…

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.–Marcus Aurelius

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Visual Soliloquy #48 The road of life twists and turns…

The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.–Don Williams, Jr.

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Visual Soliloquy #47 The idea is to write it so that people hear it…

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart. –Maya Angelou

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Visual Soliloquy #46 Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. –Arnold H. Glasow

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Visual Soliloquy #45 Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal…

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. –Wayne Dyer

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Visual Soliloquy #44 When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but…

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. –Helen Keller

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Visual Soliloquy #43 You can grunt and heave, sweat and strain, wear yourself out…

You can grunt and heave, sweat and strain, wear yourself out, and unless you simply forget about it and step up, you won’t even get off the ground. — Mike Borghoff.

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Visual Soliloquy #42

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things. –Pablo Picasso

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Visual Soliloquy #41

Just don’t give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. –Ella Fitzgerald

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Visual Soliloquy #40

…I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realised, than lord among those without dreams and desires. – Kahlil Gibran

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Visual Soliloquy #39

Your feet will bring you to where your heart is. – Irish Proverb

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Visual Soliloquy #38

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine. –Morris West

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Visual Soliloquy #37

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success. –Bo Bennett

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Visual Soliloquy #36

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. –Carl Sandburg

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Visual Soliloquy #35

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. –Thomas Merton

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Visual Soliloquy #34

Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted. –Unknown

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Visual Soliloquy #33

I believe that whether a person follows any religion or not is unimportant, he or she must have a good heart, a warm heart. –Dalai Lama

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Visual Soliloquy #32

I wear a poppy so that others can see That I respect those who died for me The bright red shows of the blood that was shed For me and for others who live far ahead

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Visual Soliloquy #31

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought. –Alexander Pope And from Rick Mercer…Remember to Remember.  

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Visual Soliloquy #30

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. –Brian Tracy

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Visual Soliloquy #29

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. –Edwin Way Teale

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Visual Soliloquy #28

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. –Zhuangzi

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Visual Soliloquy #27

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Visual Soliloquy #26

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. –Helen Keller

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Visual Soliloquy #25

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding. –Norman Maclean

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Visual Soliloquy #24

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we … Continue reading

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Visual Soliloquy #23

Sometimes the more goal-oriented we are, the less likely we are to obtain that goal. If you really, really want something, you have to forget how much you want it. Or else you’ll be too nervous to get it. But … Continue reading

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Visual Soliloquy #22

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.  The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do.  You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the … Continue reading

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Visual Soliloquy #21

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. –Parker Palmer

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Visual Soliloquy #20

“Sometimes questions are more important than answers.” –Nancy Willard

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Visual Soliloquy #19

The true measure of one’s worth is not where you come to be at journey’s end, but in the lives you touch along the way. –Anonymous

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What’s TA Climbing Next? Clue #4

Alright! Things are heating up in the guessing department. I’m loving how you are all catches some of the subtle clues in the images and putting it together with some google or bing action to come up with all new … Continue reading

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