What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Marcus Aurelius

You are the universe experiencing itself.  

Alan Watts

This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before. 

Maya Angelou

 

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Emily Dickinson

When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

Buddha

 

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.

John F. Kennedy

 

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,

Love like you'll never be hurt,

Sing like there's nobody listening,

And live like it's heaven on earth.

William Purkey

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

William Arthur Ward

But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again. 

Gustav Mahler

The sky is not the limit. Your mind is. 

Marilyn Monroe

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching. 

Gerald Way

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. 

William Makepeace Thackeray

 

It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.

Louisa May Alcott

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed. 

Garry Winogrand

RH

1 year old

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming. 

Alice Walker

Music is the highest, most powerful, most overriding, of all the arts. In the presence of music, all the other arts take on the character of the music, not vice versa, and is capable of, and can produce in us, the finest, most delicate of possible human reactions. 

Mark Anstendig

 

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Do few things but do them well, simple joys are holy. 

Francis of Assisi

 

We are a landscape of all we have seen. 

Isamu Noguchi

This benefit of seeing...can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image...the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.

Dorothea Lange

This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle.

Meher Baba

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

 

Top row, third child from the teacher, striped shirt . . . Ron H. 

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child. 

Tim Burton

Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells. 

Teresa Amabile

It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes just as much through broken hearts and bruised emotions, through painful sacrifices and melancholy renunciations.

Paul Brunton

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. 

Oscar Wilde

There is nothing more meaningful than being true to yourself and finding your own voice. Follow your heart and don't let anyone discourage you. 

Jane Fulton Alt

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.

Ancient Native American Proverb

Alice: "How long is forever?" White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second." 

Lewis Carroll

The entire universe is a great theatre of mirrors. 

Alice Bailey

The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one. 

William Blake

When I'm ready to make a photograph . . . 

I quite obviously see in my mind's eye something that is not literally there . . . 

I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without. 

Ansel Adams

 

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every cubic inch of space is a miracle. 

Walt Whitman

 

 

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

Chief Seattle 

Duwamish

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.

Gertrude Stein

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. 

Pablo Picasso

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. 

It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

William Blake

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. 

First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

Rumi 

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. 

William Blake

Color is the fruit of life. 

Guillaume Apollinaire

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

Willie Nelson

I have a thousand brilliant lies
For the question:
How are you?

I have a thousand brilliant lies
For the question:
What is God?

If you think that the Truth can be known
From words,

If you think that the Sun and the Ocean
Can pass through that tiny opening Called the mouth,

O someone should start laughing!
Someone should start wildly Laughing Now!

Hafez

 

The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

Henry Ward Beecher

Music is . . . A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

Ludwig van Beethoven 

The Eyes are the window to your soul. 

William Shakespeare

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

Ernest Holmes

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep. 

William Shakespeare

 

Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography. 

Annie Leibovitz

 

When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.

Harat Inayat Khan

 

If you must have a rule to follow, I would suggest cultivating a dialogue with your inner voice... If you listen to the clues your own images offer, the resulting work will be fresh, and authentic. Fall in love with your world . . . 

Jane Fulton Alt 

 

Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life. 

Gertrude Stein

 

 

 

Humanity is the earth’s nerve-endings through which planetary vibrations are received for transmission.

Gurdjieff

 

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.

Joseph Campbell

 

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

 

The visionary is the one who brings his or her voice into the world and who refuses to edit, rehearse, perform, or hide. It is the visionary who knows that the power of creativity is aligned with authenticity. 

Angeles Arrien

The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell. 

Walt Whitman

 

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

Victor Hugo

 

Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.

Frida Kahlo

Whatever we believe about how we got to be the extraordinary creatures we are today is far less important than bringing our intellect to bear on how do we get together now around the world and get out of the mess that we've made. That's the key thing now. Never mind how we got to be who we are.

Jane Goodall

It's the viewer that makes the work. 

Marcel Duchamp

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any. 

Walt Whitman

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved. 

Ansel Adams

I'm just very thankful. And I say that a lot because that's the most important message.

Pharrell Williams

 

 

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. 

William Shakespeare

Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry. 

Annie Leibovitz

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. 

Being alive is the meaning.

Joseph Campbell

RH

age 4 years

Nebraska

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

Tecumseh