INNER STRENGTH

Positivity

Posted on April 7, 2022 at 4:43 pm by Lisa Azarmi / INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” Walt Whitman Thérèse Marthe Françoise Cotard-Dupré – Guiding the Geese, 1877-1921.

Individuality

Posted on January 18, 2022 at 6:09 pm by Lisa Azarmi / BECOMING, INDIVIDUALITY, INNER STRENGTH

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.” e.e. cummings Jan van Beers – When Stars Set, 1874.

Perseverance

Posted on December 16, 2021 at 1:54 pm by Lisa Azarmi / FEARLESS, INNER STRENGTH, PERSEVERANCE

“I was laying in bed one night and I thought ‘I’ll just quit…to hell with it.’ And another little voice inside me said ‘Don’t quit…save that tiny little ember of spark.’ And never give them that spark because as long as you have that spark, you can start the greatest…

Rapture of living

Posted on November 2, 2021 at 5:34 pm by Lisa Azarmi / HOPE, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL

“Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.”Helen Keller Akseli Gallen-Kallela – Winter Landscape.

Blossom

Posted on October 7, 2021 at 2:13 pm by Lisa Azarmi / AWAKENING, BEAUTY, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, COURAGE, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” Anaïs Nin Ludwik Stasiak – Blooming Orchids, 1900.

Peaceful

Posted on October 7, 2021 at 2:04 pm by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, AUTUMN, INNER STRENGTH, NATURE, NIGHT, SEA SCAPES

“So let us welcome peaceful evening in” William Cowper Akseli Gallen-Kallela – Stockflotte, 1908.

Happiness

Posted on October 6, 2021 at 11:40 am by Lisa Azarmi / BEAUTY, BECOMING, BOTANICAL, CALM, GARDEN, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, LIFE PATH

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” Marcel Proust Claude Monet – Waterlilies and a Japanese Bridge, 1899.

Storms

Posted on October 5, 2021 at 9:33 am by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BLACK & WHITE, COURAGE, ENDURANCE, HOPE, ILLUSTRATION, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL

“When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” Haruki Murakami – Kafka on the Shore, 2002.Ida Rentoul Outhwaite – The Storm.

Personal Growth

Posted on October 2, 2021 at 12:25 pm by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, ADVENTURE, AUTUMN, BEAUTY, BEGINNINGS, CONFIDENCE, COURAGE, FEELINGS, FREEDOM, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, LANDSCAPE, LIFE PATH, MOTIVATIONAL, PERSONAL GROWTH, TREES, UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence, but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.” Henry Ward Beecher Felix Vallotton – Bridge Over the Bèal, 1922.

Heartache

Posted on October 1, 2021 at 12:38 pm by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, BEGINNINGS, ENDURANCE, FEARLESS, FEELINGS, FEMALE PORTRAIT, FREEDOM, HEART, HEARTBREAK, HEARTEACHE, INNER STRENGTH

“No one worth possessingCan be quite possessed;Lay that on your heart,My young angry dear;This truth, this hard and precious stone,Lay it on your hot cheek,Let it hide your tear.Hold it like a crystalWhen you are aloneAnd gaze in the depths of the icy stone.Long, look long and you will be…

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