by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 17, 2021 | BEAUTY, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, IMAGINATION, INSPIRATIONAL, MAGIC, PAINTING
“The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves”.Kahlil Gibran Jan van Eyck – Man with Pinks (detail), 1436.
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 | BEAUTY, BECOMING, ETERNAL LOVE, FEELINGS, FEMALE PORTRAIT, LOVE, MAGIC, PAINTING, POET, POETRY
“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.” Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass, 1850. Gaston Bussière – Isolde, 1911.
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 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.
by Lisa Azarmi | Aug 25, 2021 | BEAUTY, CLASSIC LITERATURE, DREAMS, FANTASY, IMAGINATION, LOVE, MOONLIGHT, NIGHT SKY, PAINTING, POET, POETRY, STARS
“Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie, 1847. Vincent Van Gogh – Starry Night, 1889.
