by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 28, 2021 | BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BOOKS, CLASSIC LITERATURE, CONFIDENCE, COURAGE, FEMALE PORTRAIT, IMAGINATION, INNER STRENGTH, PORTRAITS, READING
“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long...
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 26, 2021 | BEAUTY, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BOOKS, CALM, DREAMING, DREAMS, FAIRIES, FANTASY, FEMALE PORTRAIT, FORESTS, ILLUSTRATION, IMAGINATION, INDIVIDUALITY, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, MIDSUMMER, MOONLIGHT, NIGHT, OPENING, SPIRITUALITY
“She was beautiful, but not like those girls in magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she...
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 20, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BLACK & WHITE, BOOKS, CALM, CONFIDENCE, COURAGE, ENDURANCE, FEARLESS, FEELINGS, FEMALE PORTRAIT, GENTLENESS, HONESTY, HOPE, ILLUSTRATION, IMAGINATION, INDIVIDUALITY, INNER STRENGTH, KINDNESS, LIFE PATH, LIGHT, MOTIVATIONAL, SELF LOVE, SERENITY, SPIRITUALITY, WATER, WELLBEING, WOODBLOCK
“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days…...
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 18, 2021 | BEAUTY, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BOOKS, CALM, CLASSIC LITERATURE, DREAMS, ETERNAL LOVE, FEARLESS, FEELINGS, FEMALE PORTRAIT, HEART, HONESTY, HOPE, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, MOTIVATIONAL, PORTRAITS
“Write it on your heartthat every day is the best day in the year.He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the daywho allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.Finish every day and be done with it.You have done what you could.Some blunders and absurdities, no...
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 17, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, BEAUTY, BECOMING, BOOKS, BUTTERFLY, CALM, CREATIVITY, DIGITAL ART, FANTASY, FEMALE PORTRAIT
“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”Nathaniel Hawthorne Christian Schloe
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 13, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BOOKS, CLASSIC LITERATURE, COURAGE, ENDURANCE, FEARLESS, FEELINGS, HOPE, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, PAINTING, POET, POETRY
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them....