Category Archives: Visual Soliloquy

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer. ~Dag Hammarskjold

  Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. ~Betty Smith

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~Jimmy Johnson

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. ~Jonathan Kozel

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. ~Victor Hugo

Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste. ~Brecht

If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. ~Toni Morrison

Now that it’s all over, what did you really do yesterday that’s worth mentioning? ~Coleman Cox

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau

What saves a person is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture. ~Kak Sri

Gratitude is the memory of the heart. ~Jean Baptiste Massieu

Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone. ~G.B. Stern

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. –Albert Einstein

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. –Winston Churchill

Speed kills colour… the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray. –Paul Morand quotes

I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.–Emily Bronte

Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. –Oscar Wilde

Each place is the right place–the place where I now am can be a sacred space. ― Ravi Ravindra

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go ― Jack Kornfield

Realize that this very body, with its aches and it pleasures… is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive. ~Pema Chodron

There is no enlightenment outside of daily life. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

As soon as we wish to be happier, we are no longer happy. ~ Walter Landor

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. Dalai Lama

I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking. –Einstein

Don’t worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. –Howard Thurman

Do you have patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself? –Lao Tzu

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the small uncaring ways. –Stephen Vincent Benet

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. ~Arthur Golden

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~Kenji Miyazawa

Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack. ~Author Unknown

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere. ~Frank A. Clark

We acquire the strength we have overcome. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, “Why did this happen to me?” unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way. ~Author Unknown

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. ~Robert Fulghum

If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want. ~Oscar Wilde