What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image from Pixabay.
Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
Below is the original photo used to create this image. While taking a walk around Floyd, VA, my parents and I came across a farmers’ market and this fantastic flower box. It was Mom’s favorite, so Mom, these flower-box kaleidoscopes are for you! No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Below is the original photo used to create this image. Found a great moss and lichen bespeckled brick wall on an afternoon walk near Forest Hill Park, in Richmond, VA. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
― Marilyn Monroe
Below is the original photo used to create this image. While taking an afternoon walk around Floyd, VA in the rain. Hanging baskets with a beautiful variety of flowers seemed to be outside every shop. I couldn’t resist these incredible purple and yellow pansies. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
― Mahatma Gandhi
Below is the original photo used to create this image. While taking an afternoon walk around Floyd, VA in the rain. Hanging baskets with a beautiful variety of flowers seemed to be outside every shop. I couldn’t resist these deep violet and vivid pink flowers. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone
You raze the old to raise the new.
–Justina Chen, North of Beautiful
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s water flowing along the sidewalk into a storm drain. This was taken in 2016 on a bright fall afternoon, no special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my Kodak Share digital camera.
It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.
–Roy T. Bennett
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s a gorgeous sunset taken outside of Mesa, Arizona in November, 2008 at my grandparents’ 50th anniversary party. If you look closely, you can make out saguaro cacti. A simple snap from my Kodak Share camera.
You’re always you, and that don’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
–Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
Below is the original photo used to create this image. All I can say, is sometimes you have to look down to see a rainbow.. I caught this oil-slick rainbow at dusk after a rain just outside my office building with no special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
–Laura Ingalls Wilder
Below is the original photo used to create this image. This one came out of the archive. It’s a stormy Atlantic Ocean from a trip to Nags Head, North Carolina in the late 90’s. I had one of those awesome film cameras that took panoramic shots. Film negative saved to CD.
And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.
–Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s a bush from the front of my house that has its winter berries going on. Taken on an bright morning with no special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
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