by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 18, 2021 | ADVENTURE, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BUTTERFLY, COURAGE, CREATIVITY, DREAMS, ENDURANCE, FEARLESS, FEMALE PORTRAIT, HOPE, ILLUSTRATION, INDIVIDUALITY, INNER STRENGTH, MOTIVATIONAL
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” Coco Chanel F. X. Leyendecker – The Flapper, 1922.
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 17, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, ADVENTURE, BEAUTY, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, CALM, COURAGE, FEARLESS, HONESTY, HOPE, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, LIFE PATH, MOTIVATIONAL, OPENING, PAINTING, SELF LOVE
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”Helen Keller Henri Le Sidaner – The Garden Door, The Console, 1924.
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 15, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, BEAUTY, BECOMING, COURAGE, ENDURANCE, ETERNAL LOVE, FEMALE PORTRAIT, IMAGINATION, INNER STRENGTH, MEDITATION, MELANCHOLY, MOONLIGHT, SERENITY, SOUL, SPIRITUALITY, WELLBEING
“Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.”Rainer Maria Rilke Odilon Redon – Melancholy, 1876.
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....
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 13, 2021 | ADVENTURE, BEAUTY, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BIRDS, BOOKS, CHILD PORTRAIT, CHILDREN, CHILDRENS STORY BOOK, CLASSIC LITERATURE, COURAGE, DREAMS, ENDURANCE, FAIRY TALES, FANTASY, FEARLESS, FEELINGS, FREEDOM, HOPE, ILLUSTRATION, INNER STRENGTH, LIFE PATH, SKY
“Don’t be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.”Oscar Wilde Nadezhda Illarionova – Thumbelina, Fairy Tales: Hans Christian Andersen.
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 6, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, BECOMING, CALM, COURAGE, HONESTY, HOPE, INNER STRENGTH, MIDSUMMER, MOONLIGHT, MOTIVATIONAL, PAINTING, SELF LOVE, SERENITY, WATER
“I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.” Jane Austen – Sense and Sensibility, 1795. Edvard Munch – Summer Night by the Beach, 1902-03.