I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.
― J.G. Ballard

 

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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
― Virginia Woolf

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. This dramatic sky and view of downtown Richmond, VA near 3rd and East Main Street was captured on my way home from work. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

 

Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

 

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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

 

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The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.
― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

 

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Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. This dramatic sky and view of downtown Richmond, VA near 3rd and East Main Street was captured on my way home from work. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

 

Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

 

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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
― Bertrand Russell

 

Below is a scan of the original artwork used to create this image. This watercolor tryptic is titled “Healing Waters.” To learn more about the concept behind this piece, please see my post here.

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

 

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