A Week In Thought.
“I gave myself care when it wanted destruction.
And that is when my healing began.”
-Juansen Dizon
You Have A Gift.
It is with life as it is with muscle, meaningful growth requires a willingness to take on stress, and it requires dedication.”
-Original
True North.
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
- Maria Robinson
The Power of Struggle.
“If you avoid conflict to keep the peace you start a war inside yourself.”
-Cheryl Richardson
The Noticing.
“Some people talk, and some people do. Some people gawk, while people drive through.”
-David Carrion
All I Could Ask.
“Don’t make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want.”
-Don Miguel Ruiz
An Endless Reserve.
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
-Andre Gide
Decisions.
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”
-Harper Lee ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’
Regular Interval.
“The solitary act of making art involves intense, wordless dialogue.”
-Stephen Batchelor
Notes On Life Learnings.
“Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature yet transcending it.”
-Erich Fromm
The Color Indicator.
“The power of ‘the Eye of the Heart,’ which produces insight, is vastly superior to the power of thought, which produces opinions,”
- E.F. Schumacher ‘how we know what we know’
Duplicity, Revisited.
“The gentleman helps others to realize what is good in them; he does not help them to realize what is bad in them. The small man does the opposite.”
-Confucius
The Raven Chronicles - Chapter I
“Thy lot or portion of life is seeking after thee; therefore be at rest from seeking after it.”
-Caliph Ali
The Raven Chronicles. (Preface.)
“Without imagination there is no hope, no chance to envision a better future, no place to go, no goal to reach.”
-Bessel Van Der Kolk
There Is A Crack In Everything.
“Perhaps home is not a place, but simply an irrevocable condition.”
-James Baldwin
Learning, Practice, and Teaching.
"Our authentic creative expression is so unique to us. That if you don't learn or find a way to express YOUR uniqueness that it will never be seen in the world. It will never be expressed, and it will die with you, unexpressed.”
- Hayley Manson