Category Archives: Visual Soliloquy

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. –Samuel Beckett

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. –Thomas Edison

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things. –Joe Namath

Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. Must be where … Continue reading →

The forest makes your heart gentle. You become one with it…No place for greed or anger there. –Pha Pachak

Let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. … Continue reading →

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. –John Muir

When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants lumber after safety. When great trees fall in forests, small things recoil into silence, their senses eroded beyond fear. When great souls … Continue reading →

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. — Pema Chödrön

Never confuse movement with action. ― Ernest Hemingway

The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the imagination. – Emily Dickinson

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ― Kahlil Gibran

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk. ― Guy Gavriel Kay

I’ve had some wins. And been knocked down with defeats. Glimpsed views from the top of the mountain. And walked through the darkest of valleys. But through this entire ride called ‘a life’ – I’ve refused to give up. –Robin … Continue reading →

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. ― Paulo Coelho

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will … Continue reading →

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

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. ― Mother Teresa

I dream my painting and I paint my dream. ― Vincent van Gogh

Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don’t, who will? –Jon Bon Jovi

–I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. Pablo Picasso

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. ― Helen Keller

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below. –Daniel Boone

Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with this or that point of view. – Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning. ― Truman Capote

No, not conquer, that is too foolish a word. Any person who scales a mountain is still but a person, a transient speck compared to the immensity and permanence of a mountain. ― James Rozoff

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out. –Steve Jobs

When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have … Continue reading →

Everyone must believe in something, I believe I’ll go canoeing. –Henry David Thoreau

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ― Herman Melville

Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people. –Scott Weiss

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. -John Lubbock

Feel your emotions, Live true your passions, Keep still your mind. ― Geoffrey M. Gluckman

Each flower is a soul opening out to nature. – Gerald De Nerval

Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth. ~Diane Ackerman

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. –Rabindranath Tagore

I am not a teacher, but an awakener. ― Robert Frost

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one’s eyes… –George Sand