All Serious daring comes from within. 

Eudora Welty

Art

Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul – 
and you answer. 

Terri Guiffemets 

Poetry

     There is nothing but beauty – 

     and beauty has only one perfect expression,

     Poetry.

     All the rest is a lie. 

       Stéphane Mallarmè

Death

RCC_4978, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

        Each day, we wake slightly altered, 

     and the person we were yesterday is dead. 

     So why, one could say, be afraid of death, 

     when death comes all the time?

        John Updike

Real Friends

Snow Art (2014, 2.9), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Only your real friends will tell you 

when your face is dirty.

Sicilian Proverb

Essence

RIC_3339-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Be humble for you are made of Earth,

Be noble for you are made of stars.

A Serbian Proverb

Hope

St. James United Church, Toronto 1 (2014, 2.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

What is hope?
It is the insight that imagination is more real
and reality less than it looks.
It is the hunch that 
the overwhelming brutality of facts
that oppress and repress is not the last word

Ruben Alves