“We find only the world we look for.”

Henry David Thoreau

We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are.

Anais Nin

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter — ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”

Mark Twain

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

…the life of an artist is not driven by success; rather, “making your unknown known is the more important thing.”

Georgia O’Keeffe

“G-d is no thing but not nothing.”

Herbert McCabe

read in Visual Intelligence, by Amy E. Herman

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“Earth hath no sorrows that earth cannot heal.”

John Muir

read in H is for Hawk, by Helen Macdonald

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“How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.”

Charles Darwin

read in Otter Country, by Miriam Darlington

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“To expect bad men not to do wrong is madness.”

“If something is possible for any other man, it is possible for you, too.”

“Accept the things to which fate binds you.”

Marcus Aurelius, Meditation

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“The pessimist complains about the wind.

The optimist expects it to change.

The leader adjusts the sails.”

John Maxwell

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When violence “appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”

Mahatma Gandhi

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