CLASSIC LITERATURE

Friendship

Posted on November 10, 2021 at 1:20 pm by Lisa Azarmi / BOTANICAL, CLASSIC LITERATURE, FRENDSHIP, GARDEN

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”Khalil Gibran Harold Harvey – Anenomes, 1926.

Posted on November 2, 2021 at 5:37 pm by Lisa Azarmi / AWAKENING, BEAUTY, CHILDREN, CHILDRENS STORY BOOK, CLASSIC LITERATURE

“And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, ‘You let me play once in your garden, today you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.” Oscar Wilde – The Selfish Giant, 1888. Kate Cameron – Hush.

New Day

Posted on October 28, 2021 at 9:58 am by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, AWAKENING, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BUTTERFLY, CLASSIC LITERATURE

“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new a day with no mistakes in it” L.M. Montgomery – Anne of Green Gables, 1908. Frederick Sandys – Gentle Spring(detail), 1865.

Botany

Posted on October 7, 2021 at 9:44 am by Lisa Azarmi / ALCHEMY, AWAKENING, BECOMING, BOTANICAL, CLASSIC LITERATURE

“The alchemist knew the legend of Narcissus, a youth who knelt daily beside a lake to contemplate his own beauty. He was so fascinated by himself that, one morning, he fell into the lake and drowned. At the spot where he fell, a flower was born, which was called the…

Becoming

Posted on October 1, 2021 at 11:09 am by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, ANIMALS, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BOOKS, CHILD PORTRAIT, CHILDREN, CHILDRENS STORY BOOK, CLASSIC LITERATURE, COURAGE, ENDURANCE, ETERNAL LOVE, FEARLESS, FEELINGS, FREEDOM, GENTLENESS, HEART, HONESTY, HOPE, ILLUSTRATION, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, KINDNESS, LIFE PATH, MOTIVATIONAL, PATIENCE, SELF LOVE, UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, WELLBEING

“You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and…

Reading

Posted on September 28, 2021 at 11:14 am by Lisa Azarmi / 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…

Transformations

Posted on September 23, 2021 at 4:04 pm by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, ADVENTURE, ANIMALS, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BOTANICAL, BUTTERFLY, CHILD PORTRAIT, CHILDREN, CHILDRENS STORY BOOK, CLASSIC LITERATURE, CONFIDENCE, CREATIVITY, FAIRY TALES, FANTASY, FEELINGS, GARDEN, HOPE, ILLUSTRATION, IMAGINATION, INDIVIDUALITY, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, MAGIC

“‘Who are you?’ said the Caterpillar.This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, ‘I…I hardly know, sir, just at present …at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.’”Lewis…

Confidence

Posted on September 20, 2021 at 1:16 pm by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BUTTERFLY, CLASSIC LITERATURE, CONFIDENCE, COURAGE, DIGITAL ART, DREAMING, DREAMS, FREEDOM, HOPE, ILLUSTRATION, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, MOTIVATIONAL, OPENING

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.” Henry David Thoreau Catrin Welz Stein

Home

Posted on September 18, 2021 at 4:30 pm by Lisa Azarmi / CHILD PORTRAIT, CHILDREN, CLASSIC LITERATURE, FRENDSHIP, HOME, KINDNESS

“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”Ralph Waldo Emerson Anna Ancher – Sunlight in the blue room, 1891.

Heart

Posted on September 18, 2021 at 11:24 am by Lisa Azarmi / 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…