the sight of the stars

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“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh

remembering

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inspired

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I'm captivated by these photos. Just snapshots of his life, but etched with so much detail. One day I hope to take photos as raw as these images.

wordless

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just so you know

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focus

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"If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavourable. Favourable conditions never come."

~ C.S. Lewis, “Learning in War-Time”, The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses

greatness

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christmas spirit

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"I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys."

~ Charles Dickens

what might have been

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"While it's often fashionable to dwell upon what might have been, what's usually overlooked is that really and truly, it couldn't have. Because, invariably, any romanticized versions of how things "might have been," are based upon fictionalized versions of the past."

~ the Universe

try and try again

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patience

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"Everything comes in time those who can wait."

~ Francois Rabelais

2 things

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It's that simple.

action

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"To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor."

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

beginnings

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"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."

~ Seneca

relax

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"Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."

~ Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne

embrace

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delight

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"We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."

~ e.e cummings

time

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"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

~ Steve Jobs

choice

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patience

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"All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope."

~ Alexandre Dumas