Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.
–Czesław Miłosz
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s a maple sapling growing between stone pavers in my backyard. Taken on an overcast day with no special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
It’s so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it’s taking forever to come. Then it happens and it’s over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.
–Lauren Oliver, Delirium
Below is the original photo used to create this image. These black-eyed susans were on display outside my local grocery store. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back….
–Erica Jong
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s a lichen and moss covered tree trunk and exposed roots from my backyard. Taken on an overcast day with no special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.
–Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Below is the original photo used to create this image. These sunflowers were on display in front of my local grocery store. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
People do not change, they are merely revealed.
–Anne Enright, The Gathering
Below is the original photo used to create this image. These lovelies were arrangements in planters at a local outdoor mall. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
–Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
Below is the original photo used to create this image. These orange flowers are part of the landscaping in front of my office building. Since they’re small, I had to get in super close. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
Nothing is going to change, unless someone does something soon.
–Dr. Seuss
Below is the original photo used to create this image. These black-eyed susans were on display outside my local grocery store. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character…Would you slow down? Or speed up?
–Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s a bouquet of silk flowers on my dining room table using the curtain as a drape. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming – well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.
–Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s the big blue sky pic I took on a summer trip to Illinois. No special lighting or retouching, simply a snap from my smart phone. Yes, the sky really was that blue…
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
–Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s a maple sapling growing between stone pavers in my backyard. Taken on an overcast day with no special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
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