Category Archives: Visual Soliloquy

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. ~Thomas Fuller

The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. ~Annie Dillard

A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. ~Henry David Thoreau

The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them. – Jim Rohn  

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. ~ Albert Einstein

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose–a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. – Mary Shelley

Constant dripping hollows out a stone. – Lucretius

For hope is but the dream of those that wake. – Matthew Prior

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fortune favors the brave. – Publius Terence

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. – Samuel Johnson

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. – William B. Sprague

The best way out is always through. – Robert Frost

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. – Author Unknown

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. – Benjamin Disraeli

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. – Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe – Latin Proverb  

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. – Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. –Peter Drucker

One travels more usefully when alone, because s/he reflects more. –Thomas Jefferson

Reading is a means of thinking with another person’s mind; it forces you to stretch your own. –Charles Scribner, Jr.

Enlightenment must come little by little-otherwise it would overwhelm.–Idries Shah

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. – Thornton Wilder

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. – Johann Gottfried Von Herder

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. – Arthur C. Clarke

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle

Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.–Bernice Johnson Reagon

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. – St. Clement of Alexandra

The power of imagination makes us infinite. – John Muir

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. – Epictetus

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. – Leon J. Suenes

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration life will be. – Horace Bushnell

Every artist was first an amateur. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you would create something, you must be something. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: “Leave no stone unturned.” – Edward Bulwer Lytton

Inspiration and genius–one and the same. – Victor Hugo

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. – Henry David Thoreau

Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.–Stephen Covey