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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Gift of Pamela Harriman in memory of W. Averell Harriman
I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.
Joseph Campbell
📷 public domain
Being grateful does not mean that everything is necessarily good.
It just means that you can accept it as a gift.
Roy T. Bennett
📷 Public domain pictures
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you?
Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
Walt Whitman
📷 Public domain pictures
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road.
They are the destination, and the journey.
They are home.
Anna Quindlen
📷 Public domain images
So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.
Henry David Thoreau
🎨 Claude Monet
It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.
Ray Bradbury
📷 Dreamstime
RT @noveliciouss
I think when we don’t know what to do it’s wise to do nothing.
Sit down quietly; quiet our hearts and minds and breathe deeply.
Maya Angelou
via @SolitaireRSoli1