Art

  • Kaleidoscope #1164 - If you don’t feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated. ― Paul F. Davis Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Engin Akyurt from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1163 - If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care. ― Marvin J. Ashton Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Rene Rauschenberger from […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1162 - Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation. ― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, The Bhagavad-gita Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by DarkWorkX from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1161 - If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal. ― John […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1160 - What’s most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty. ― J.K. Rowling Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Engin Akyurt from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1159 - Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It’s a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it. ― Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye  Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Stux from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1158 - The worst surroundings in the world can be tolerated if the people in them are interesting and kind. ― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Rene Rauschenberger from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1157 - Structural dissatisfaction: Returning to circumstances that once pleased you, after having experienced a more thrilling or opulent way of life, and finding that you can no longer tolerate them. ― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad   Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by DarkWorkX from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1156 - It’s a universal law– intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility. ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn  Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by DarkWorkX from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1155 - Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. ― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain  Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Stux from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1154 - Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, “At the very least, you will be polite to them.” ― Patricia Briggs, Moon Called  Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Engin Akyurt from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1153 - Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance. ― Michelle Obama, Becoming  Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Rene Rauschenberger from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1152 - What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace. ― John Wesley  Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by DarkWorkX from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1151 - If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life’s exciting variety, not something to fear. ― Gene Roddenberry    Below is the original photo used to create […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1150 - His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can’t fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be gone, like when an organ is removed and the body’s fluids flow into the space it leaves. Humans can’t tolerate emptiness for long. ― Veronica Roth, Divergent  Below is the […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1149 - Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too. ― Voltaire, Traité sur la tolérance, à l’occasion de la mort de Jean Calas  Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Stux from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1148 - Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you. ― Timothy Keller  Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Rene Rauschenberger from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1147 - I’m for open-mindedness and tolerance. I’m against any form of fanaticism, fundamentalism or zealotry, and this certainty of ‘We have the truth.’ The truth is far too large and complex. Nobody has the truth. ― Philip Pullman  Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by DarkWorkX from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1146 - I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. ― Stephen Fry  Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by DarkWorkX from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1145 - Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail. ― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance  Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Stux from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1144 - Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today. ― Malcolm X  Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Engin Akyurt […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1143 - Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. ― Albert Einstein  Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Rene Rauschenberger from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1142 - If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding. ― Dalai Lama XIV Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by DarkWorkX from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1141 - Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these. ― George Washington Carver  Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by DarkWorkX from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1140 - Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel. ― Steven Moffat Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Engin Akyurt from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1139 - It is not for me to judge another man’s life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone. ― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Stux from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1138 - This life is for loving, sharing, learning, smiling, caring, forgiving, laughing, hugging, helping, dancing, wondering, healing, and even more loving. I choose to live life this way. I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, ‘aw shit, he’s up! ― […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1137 - Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work. ― William Arthur Ward    Below is the original photo used to create this image. It was sent to me by a good friend […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1136 - Enduring and forgiving are two different things. You must not forgive the cruelty of this world. It’s our duty as human beings to be angry at injustice. But we must also endure it. Because someone must sever this chain of hatred. ― Hiromu Arakawa, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 18  Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1135 - An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind. ― Kahlil Gibran  Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Susilo Adi from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1134 - An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind. ― Kahlil Gibran    Below is the original photo used to create this image. I happened upon these lovelies during a walk through my neighborhood, and since I can’t resist anything purple… No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
  • Kaleidoscope #1133 - Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person’s throat. ― Wm. Paul Young, The Shack  Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Stux from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1132 - Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule. ― Siddhārtha Gautama, The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha    Below is the original photo used to create this image. I have a fair collection of crystals and took a close up of my amethyst geode. No special lighting or retouching, […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1131 - Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing. ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn  Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Mylene2401 from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1130 - Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are. ― Cherie Carter-Scott    Below is the original photo used to create this image. I happened upon these lovelies during a walk through my neighborhood, and since I can’t resist anything purple… No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1129 - But if you forgive someone for something they did to you, it doesn’t mean you agree with what they did or believe it was right. Forgiving that person means you have chosen not to dwell on the matter anymore; you have moved on with your life. ― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1128 - No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn. ― Jim Morrison  Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Susilo Adi from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1127 - Forgiveness is the best part of valor…Discretion is easy. It’s finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dance with the Devil    Below is the original photo used to create this image. I happened upon these lovelies during a walk through my neighborhood, and since I can’t resist […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1126 - One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1125 - Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ― Mark Twain    Below is the original photo used to create this image. It was sent to me by a good friend who happens to spend his days outside as a postal carrier. These lovelies were found along his […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1124 - I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. ― Abraham Lincoln  Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Mylene2401 from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1123 - I have learned, that the person I have to ask for forgiveness from the most is: myself. You must love yourself. You have to forgive yourself, every day, whenever you remember a shortcoming, a flaw, you have to tell yourself “That’s just fine”. You have to forgive yourself so much, until you don’t even see […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1122 - For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed? ― bell hooks  Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1121 - Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart. ― Jim Henson  Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1120 - Forgiving isn’t something you do for someone else. It’s something you do for yourself. It’s saying, ‘You’re not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.’ It’s saying, ‘You don’t get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.’ ― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller    Below is the original photo used […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1119 - You’re different. And I’m different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know. ― Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock    Below is the original photo used to create this image. I have a fair collection of crystals and took a close up of my amethyst geode. No special lighting or […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1118 - repeat after me: you owe no one your forgiveness. – except maybe yourself. ― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One    Below is the original photo used to create this image. It was sent to me by a good friend who happens to spend his days outside as a postal carrier. These […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1117 - There isn’t time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that. ― Mark Twain  Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Susilo Adi from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1116 - Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And if you’re not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else. ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience    Below is the original photo used to create this image. I happened upon these lovelies during a […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1115 - Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You’re done. It doesn’t necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare… ― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith  Below is the original photo used to create this image. […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1114 - Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. Like all of life’s important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1113 - We don’t forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it—because we need it. ― Bree Despain, The Dark Divine  Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Susilo Adi from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1112 - Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. ― Emma Goldman    Below is the original photo used to create this image. I have a fair collection of crystals and took a close up of my amethyst geode. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
  • Kaleidoscope #1111 - Never forget the nine most important words of any family: I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me. ― H. Jackson Brown Jr.    Below is the original photo used to create this image. It was sent to me by a good friend who happens to spend his days outside as a postal carrier. […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1110 - You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love. ― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar  Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1109 - The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. ― Marianne Williamson    Below is the original photo used to create this image. I happened upon these lovelies during a walk through my neighborhood, and since I can’t resist anything purple… No special lighting or retouching, just a snap […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1108 - To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. ― G.K. Chesterton    Below is the original photo used to create this image. I happened upon these interesting flowers during a walk through my neighborhood. No special lighting or retouching, […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1107 - Perfectionism is the enemy of happiness. Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happier. We make mistakes because we are imperfect. Learn from your mistakes, forgive yourself, and keep moving forward. ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart    Below is the original photo used to create […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1106 - Perfectionism is the enemy of happiness. Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happier. We make mistakes because we are imperfect. Learn from your mistakes, forgive yourself, and keep moving forward. ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart    Below is the original photo used to create […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1105 - Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on. ― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile  Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Mylene2401 from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1104 - The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive. ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows  Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Felix Mittermeier from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1103 - We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward. ― Alison Croggon    Below is the original photo used to create this image. It turns out you don’t have to make a special […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1102 - People have to forgive. We don’t have to like them, we don’t have to be friends with them, we don’t have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to overlook, to forget. Because if we don’t we are tying rocks to our feet, too much for our wings to […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1101 - Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing. ― Brian Weiss, Messages from the Masters: Tapping Into the Power […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1100 - We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ― Ellen Goodman   Below is the original photo used to create this image. It turns out you […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1099 - Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. ― Robert Frost   Below is the original photo used to create this image. It turns out you don’t have to make a special trip to a botanical garden to see lovely flowers, just go to your local […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1098 - To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. ― G.K. Chesterton Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Felix Mittermeier from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1097 - Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim–letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor. ― C.R. Strahan   Below is the original photo used to create this image. It turns out […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1096 - Truth, honesty, perseverance, strength, love of all kinds and forgiveness are all beautiful, Tack. The most beautiful stories ever told are the most difficult to take. ― Kristen Ashley, Motorcycle Man   Below is the original photo used to create this image. I happened upon these interesting flowers during a walk through my neighborhood. No […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1095 - But we can’t go back. We can only go forward. ― Libba Bray   Below is the original photo used to create this image. Sometimes I feel like I’m always looking at the sky. I wish I could take pictures of every sky-scape. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
  • Kaleidoscope #1094 - I’ve come to believe that the most dangerous man in the world is the one who feels no remorse. The one who never apologizes and therefore seeks no forgiveness. Because in the end it is our emotions that make us week, not our actions. ― Tahereh Mafi, Destroy Me Below is the original photo used […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1093 - …if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will be the same […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1092 - Forgiving is not forgetting; it’s actually remembering–remembering and not using your right to hit back. It’s a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you don’t want to repeat what happened. ― Desmond Tutu Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1091 - Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not. ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History   Below is the original photo used to create this image. Sometimes I feel like I’m always looking at the sky. I wish I could take pictures of every sky-scape. No special […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1090 - To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it’s true. It’s a new world every heart beat. ― Joyce Cary, The Horse’s Mouth Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Mylene2401 from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1089 - Forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice. ― Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn   Below is the original photo used to create this image. It turns out you don’t have to make a special trip to a botanical garden to see lovely flowers, just go to your local Home Depot. […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1088 - hen we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one. We cannot love when we feel fear…. When we release the fearful past and forgive […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1087 - Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember. ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible   Below is the original photo used to create this image. Sometimes I feel like I’m always looking at the sky. I wish I […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1086 - What I cannot love, I overlook. ― Anais Nin   Below is the original photo used to create this image. I happened upon these interesting flowers during a walk through my neighborhood. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
  • Kaleidoscope #1085 - Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record. ― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for   Below is the original photo used to create this image. It turns out you don’t have to […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1084 - Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. Love like there’s no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again. ― Max Lucado, Every Day Deserves a Chance: Wake Up to the Gift of 24 Hours Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Felix Mittermeier from […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1083 - The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1082 - Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient. ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free   Below is the original photo used to create this image. It turns out you don’t have to make a special trip to a botanical garden to see lovely flowers, just go to […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1081 - Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. ― Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith   Below is the original photo used to create this image. Sometimes I feel like I’m always looking at the sky. I wish I could take pictures of every sky-scape. No […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1080 - Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realizing you were the prisoner! ― max lucado   Below is the original photo used to create this image. It turns out you don’t have to make a special trip to a botanical garden to see lovely flowers, just go to your local Home Depot. […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1079 - You know the incredible thing about hearts is their unbelievable capacity for forgiveness. You’d be amazed what people will overlook when they love someone. (Acheron) ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Devil May Cry   Below is the original photo used to create this image. I happened upon these interesting flowers during a walk through my neighborhood. No […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1078 - Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. ― Bruce Lee Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Felix Mittermeier from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1077 - Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family. ― Henri J.M. Nouwen […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1076 - A heart filled with anger has no room for love. ― Joan Lunden, Wake-Up Calls: Making The Most Out Of Every Day   Below is the original photo used to create this image. I happened upon these fantastic hydrangeas while walking down E. Cary Street near 2nd in downtown Richmond, VA. No special lighting or […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1075 - Anger is like flowing water; there’s nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky, disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly; that […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1074 - Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People    Below is the original photo used to create this image. I happened upon these interesting flowers during a walk through my neighborhood. No […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1073 - As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison. ― Nelson Mandela Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image by Felix Mittermeier from Pixabay.
  • Kaleidoscope #1072 - Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them. ― Marvin J. Ashton   Below is the original photo used to create this image. I happened upon these lovelies during a […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1071 - The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them. ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant   Below is the original photo used to create this image. Sometimes I feel like I’m always looking at the sky. I wish I could take pictures of every sky-scape. No special […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1070 - You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. ― ML Stedman, The Light Between Oceans   Below is the original photo used to create this image. It was sent to me by a good friend who happens to spend his days outside as a postal carrier. […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1069 - Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past. ― Anne Lamott   Below is the original photo used to create this image. I happened upon these interesting flowers during a walk through my neighborhood. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
  • Kaleidoscope #1068 - Before you can live a part of you has to die. You have to let go of what could have been, how you should have acted and what you wish you would have said differently. You have to accept that you can’t change the past experiences, opinions of others at that moment in time or […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1067 - In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there is […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1066 - It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on. ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free   Below is the original photo used to create this image. I happened upon these fantastic hydrangeas while walking down E. Cary Street near 2nd in […]
  • Kaleidoscope #1065 - To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it. ― Confucius   Below is the original photo used to create this image. Sometimes I feel like I’m always looking at the sky. I wish I could take pictures of every sky-scape. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.