Tag: Life

Spiritual Nature – A Painting

If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!

Claude Monet

Just Live It

Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.

C. S. Lewis

Draw Freely – A Painting

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

Silent Poetry – A Painting

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a painting that speaks.

Plutarch

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Earth’s Blessings

You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.”

Walter Hagen

Smell the Flower

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love.

Max Muller

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Glitters

“It’s not what you have on the outside that glitters in light,

it’s what you have on the inside that shines in the dark.”

― Anthony Liccione

The Whole World is Garden

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”– 

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Dreamy Pines – A Painting

Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The bamboo is strong, resilient, unbreakable. The plum blossom is hardy, fragrant, and elegant.”

Morihei Ueshiba

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9 Must Read Books

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader”~

1. The World As I See It by Albert Einstein

2. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

3. The Art of War by Sun Tzu

4. The Psychology Of Money

5. The Great Mental Models

6. The 48 Laws of Power

7. The Daily Stoic

8. Atomic habits

9. Deep Work

Which books will you add?

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall.” – 

Roald Dahl

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Passionate – Paintings

Do it with passion or not at all … “

Unfinished – A Painting

May be I could have done something else with this art, but then I thought to abandon it just like this, and sign it ‘roksanaamelia’ with a charcoal.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.
-Leonardo da Vinci

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Travel

Try to travel, otherwise
you may become racist,
and you may end up believing
that your skin is the only one
to be right,
that your language
is the most romantic
and that you were the first
to be the first.

Travel,
because if you don’t travel then
your thoughts won’t be strengthened,
won’t get filled with ideas.
Your dreams will be born with fragile legs and then you end up believing in tv-shows, and in those who invent enemies
that fit perfectly with your nightmares
to make you live in terror.

Travel,
because travel teaches
to say good morning to everyone
regardless of which sun we come from.

Travel,
because travel teaches
to say goodnight to everyone
regardless of the darkness
that we carry inside.

Travel,
because traveling teaches to resist,
not to depend,
to accept others, not just for who they are
but also for what they can never be.
To know what we are capable of,
to feel part of a family
beyond borders,
beyond traditions and culture.
Traveling teaches us to be beyond.

Travel,
otherwise you end up believing
that you are made only for a panorama
and instead inside you
there are wonderful landscapes
still to visit.

– Gio_Evan, poet and songwriter.
Translated from Italian.

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July, 2021
Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco, USA

Fear nothing, Travel more