by Lisa Azarmi | Oct 6, 2021 | GENTLENESS
“Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!” Charlotte Brontë – Jane Eyre, 1847. George Hendrik Breitner – Girl in a White Kimono, 1894.
by Lisa Azarmi | Oct 1, 2021 | 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 you get loose...
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 20, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, ANIMALS, BEAUTY, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, CALM, COURAGE, CREATIVITY, ENDURANCE, FEELINGS, GENTLENESS, HEART, HONESTY, HOPE, IMAGINATION, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, KINDNESS, LOVE, MALE PORTRAIT, MOTIVATIONAL, PHOTOGRAPHY, PORTRAITS, SPIRITUALITY, VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHY
“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward...
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 17, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, BIRD, CALM, ENDURANCE, FEELINGS, GENTLENESS, HONESTY, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, KINDNESS, LIFE PATH, MALE PORTRAIT, PHOTOGRAPHY, VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHY
“Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.”Ralph W. Sockman Martin Munkacsi – The Lark Lover, 1923.