Category Archives: Visual Soliloquy

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t. ~Henry Ward Beecher

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it’s bottomless, that it doesn’t have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much … Continue reading →

You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather. ― Pema Chödrön

Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken. – Frank Herbert

The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature. –Ansel Adams

The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent. –Alfred Brendel

I always say don’t make plans, make options. Jennifer Aniston

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them — every day begin the task anew. –Saint Francis de Sales

Life is a series of summits and setbacks. The way we deal with both is equally important because we can’t have one with the other. -TA Loeffler 🙂

Everything in life is a risk of some sort. Many climbers have been seriously hurt or killed driving home from the hills. Climbing holds can break unexpectedly, but lightning also strikes. Most people exist so swaddled against danger, measuring out … Continue reading →

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. ~Robert Ingersoll

No one ever really dies as long as they took the time to leave us with fond memories. ~Chris Sorensen

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break. ~William Shakespeare

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. ~Kahlil Gibran

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. ~Jean Giraudoux

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised. –Denis Waitley

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. ― Plato

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that … Continue reading →

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. -Albert Einstein

Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated not by a single burst of energy or effort, but by consistent application of the best you have within you. –Og Mandino Congratulations to the WOKies on our fourth anniversary of our … Continue reading →

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be – like the reality of yesterday – an illusion tomorrow. –Luigi Pirandello

I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. –W.B. Yeats In Memory of Shriya Shah-Klorfine