Category Archives: Visual Soliloquy

I’m humbled to have reached the milestone of 500 Visual Soliloquies…it’s been a good contemplative practice to try to match words that inspire me with images that do the same.  Thanks for all of your support and comments on the … Continue reading →

The deepest rivers make least din, the silent soule doth most abound in care. ~William Alexander

Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. – Alan Keightley

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

I love to travel, but hate to arrive. – Albert Einstein

It is solved by walking. – Algerian proverb

It is not down in any map; true places never are. – Herman Melville

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. – Robert Louis Stevenson

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions. – Sam Keen

If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.- Buddha

Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns. ~Author Unknown

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. ~Eartha Kitt

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. ~Kahlil Gibran

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. ~Willa Cather

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~James Matthew Barrie

I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. ~Plutarch

A mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.— Maya Angelou

An optimist is the human personification of spring. ~Susan J. Bissonette

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. –Theodore Roosevelt

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. ~Ansel Adams  

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear. –Gandhi

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. –Helen Keller

You don’t take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it. ~Author Unknown

You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. ~Wayne Gretzky

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

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. –Henry David Thoreau

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves. ~André Gide

Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. ~Frederick B. Wilcox

Of all the people I have ever known, those who have pursued their dreams and failed have lived a much more fulfilling life than those who have put their dreams on a shelf for fear of failure. ~Author Unknown This … Continue reading →

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. ~Soren Kierkegaard

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. –James Stephens

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. -Melinda Gates

Half the fun of the travel is the aesthetic of lostness. – Ray Bradbury

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. –Khalil Gibran