{Thoughtful Thursday} Wise Words - Share Yours

Hello Lovely friends.... How are you? How is your week? Mine is zip, zip... zipping by..... 'sigh'

I had a fun little shoot with Bryce.... and wanted to share a few pics with you all.....and a little inspiration....

I stamped each photo with a little brush love.... Two powerful quotes.... Don't you think?

Quick Recipe: Converted the image to black and white in RadLab. I then Textured with Shine at Soft Light 57%. I reopened it in RadLab and added a light dose of Antique Tone. That's it...that's all... 

One more....

Today, I invite you to share a favorite quote or 2 or 3 or 4.... I'd love to hear from you!

xo, 

p.s.

The Art of Textures starts in just a few weeks.... Here's a little inspiration from the archives... if nothing else...pause for a few moments and soak up the lovely music.... so good!

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Comments

[HeatherL]

Some people come into your life as blessings while others come into your life as lessons.

Thank you for all your textures. They are wonderful.

[magpiejst]

So many quotes, so little space...
My zen quote of the day calendaar
offers a wealth of wisdom.
this from John Cage resonates...

I am trying to be unfamiliar with
what I am doing.

[RobynO]

My daughter's wardrobe door is covered with quotes - lines out of movies or songs, famous quotes, funny ones and ones with deeper meanings. Different ones 'speak' to you on different days. I will be showing her your favorites and I suspect some of them will be appearing soon on her wardrobe door!
We have a family one, from my husband who has endured a few health issues over the years - 'If it hurts it must be good for you.'
Robyn

[Kathy]

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. Elizabeth Kubler Ros

[cheryl crotty]

Thanks Kim for all you do...enjoy your weekend.

One of my favorite quotes (I am a collector of quotes) is:
It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, or how you love, it matters only that You love. ~John Lennon

A sign in my house reads: Kindness Matters. I should do something with that. Perhaps a nice texture.

[Heather :) :) :)]

There are so many quotes tha I like for various reasons, but this one is one of my favorites right now:

Winter came down to our home one night
Quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow,
And we, we were children once again." - Bill Morgan, Jr.

It reminds me not to forget the simple pleasures of life. Love and hugs from the ocean shores of California, Heather :)

[nina]

OH---seeing piglets quote above, reminded me of Eeyore's regarding song and dance: (he's just my favorite Pooh character.)
"We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it."

I have this one on a photo of thistles. A good reminder that we are all made for different things!

[Helena]

Thank you for inspiring us. One of my favorite quotes: "Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark." ~ Rabindranath Tagore

[Brandi]

Oh man, I love quotes, and there's just no way I can pick one! I had to make a Pinterest board to collect them all, but here's a few current favorites that resonate with me:

"When there's nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire."
"Creativity takes courage." -Henri Matisse
"Make it your habit not to be critical about small things."
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working." -Picasso
"Holding a grudge is letting someone live rent-free in your head."
"I'm just striving to be more me than I've ever been."

And this one, which totally speaks to me right now:
"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel." -Steven Furtick

[Helena]

Thank you for inspiring us. One of my favorite quotes:
"Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark." ~ Rabindranath Tagore

[JennM]

absolutely love those photo. so powerful!

a favorite quote of mine is: Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ~Henry Ward Beecher

[Claudia]

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Wayne Dyer

(and you have helped me change a lot of how I look at things and change them!

Hugs
Claudia

[donna]

we do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing
AND
We do not remember days, we remember moments (because it's so true!)

now to go back and read what others have posted-thanks!

[Elvi Reiart]

There is a crack in everything

That's how the light gets in!
Leonard Cohen

A light heart lives long!
William Shakespeare

Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Chinese Proverb

[LindaB]

One of my favorites:

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late --Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Saun]

This is my newest favorite quote

Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink in the wild air
Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Mary Darling]

I love your texture - makes that extra something for my art.

My favorite quote - Smile, it makes people wonder what you're thinking

[janel]

"How far you go in life depends upon your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these"

[Leona Parks]

"Attitude is everything" (author unknown) is a favorite quote of mine as it goes hand-in-hand with our daily living and choices that we make.

[Samantha]

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” Walt Disney

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." - Albus Dumbledore

“Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.” - John Lennon

I'm pretty new to your site and just wanted to say that your textures are so lovely. Thank you for being so generous with your art!

[debi henry]

“ Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph. – Matt Hardy

[Suzanne]

Hello Kim, I want to thank you so much for all your generosity and inspiration both with textures and your courses.

My favorite Quote of all time is: When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change!
Wayne Dyer.

This one got me through a cancer battle: There is no such thing as NO CHANCE...Henry Ford.

When you possess light within, you see it externally.

~Anaïs Nin

[chasity]

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
~J.G. Holland

Thank you for your continual sources of inspiration.

Warmly~

Chasity

[deb christensen]

Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances.
~ Maya Angelou

[Electra]

My favoriter quote would be: The ocean is a symphony conducted by Mother Nature.

I've enjoyed reading everyone's favorites!!

[Randy Moe]

"Wherever you go you will make the same friends."

Told to me as a child by my father. It took me many years to understand what he meant.

[R Tyree]

“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.” -Ansel Adams

[Karen]

Here are a few of my favorite quotes:
I'm afraid sometimes you'll play lonely games too, games you can't win because you'll play against you. Dr. Seuss

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything. ~ Aaron Siskind

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

Thank you so much for your amazing textures and inspiration.

[Sandy]

The photo's are just lovely and so clean and just perfect looking and show emotion.. Bryce is very handsome, give him hugs from us.

My all time favorite is: "There's a reason for everything"

Some others I love:

"The contented person enjoys the scenery of a detour"

"Start by making your own home a place where happiness and love abound, through your love for each member of your family and for your neighbor.
Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. So much sin could be avoided if our people really love their homes. "
Mother Theresa

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful”
-William Morris

"Don't let others rent space in your head"

Is that way too many? I could go on, I am a quote lover.

[Gloria]

This quote tickles my funny bone:

Women are Angels.
And when someone breaks our wings,
we simply continue to fly....on a broomstick.
We are flexible like that.
Gloria

[Dee]

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

- Marcel Proust

[Cindy]

What a lovely give-a-way! I have been telling my best friend about your classes, and am hoping she signs up for Beyond Layers!

I like lots of quotes - depends on the day! Scriptures are always good, but there are two nice ones that I don't believe I have seen mentioned yet:

1) Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. - Theadore Roosevelt

2) Thoughts, rest your wings. Here is a hollow of silence, a nest of stillness, in which to hatch your dreams - Joan Walsh Anglund (I am enjoying thinking about nests and birds right now!)

Blessings....

[Olisa]

Thank you so much for bringing some joy into my life with your beautiful textures, Kim. I have been going through a very difficult time with my husband suffering from dementia. But I found some comfort in a daily inspirational email service called 'Today God Is First' by Os Hillmann. These daily emails have become my daily manna helping me to survive one day at a time. My favorite quote was:

'Only in the darkness do we learn to walk by faith.'

Blessings!

[Dee Vlasak]

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

- Marcel Proust

[Jenene]

Love quotes, have them on the fridge, in my art area, and written in books. A couple of special ones I love: " Be yourself everybody else is taken" and "This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy." - Susan Polis Schultz.

[teri f]

Oh well, you are speaking with a collector of quotes here, so I shall enjoy reading every single one of the comments. Here are a few of my favorites:

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am. ~Sylvia Plath


Looking back, you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life, and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again. ~Robert Brault,

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
 Marlene Savant

[Becky]

I actually heard this from a lawyer friend of mine this week, he was talking to the grandparents of a young Navy Seal who was killed in action this past year...

"I didn't know Aaron but I'll never forget him"...

This might not mean much to anyone but me but it signifies the highest compliment you could pay to the family of a fallen soldier who was fighting for the USA. RIP Aaron Vaughn, Navy Seal.

[Phyllis]

I've been changing those daily habits of what and when I eat and exercising every day - this one reminds me to keep going, progress is sometimes slow and sometimes I fail, but you have to keep trying.

"Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely
better than those who try to do nothing and succeed."
- Lloyd Jones

[Elaine]

"Time flies, even when you're not having fun."
My own take on a familiar quote :~)

"Take life seriously, take yourself lightly."
Don't know who said that.

[Dee Vlasak]

" The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
~ Marcel Proust

[Kim Kelly]

I will hold myself to a standard of grace, not perfection.

[cathy @ ma vie trouve]

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”

Miriam Beard

[Denise Powers Fabian]

Let us be grateful
to people who
make us happy;
they are the
charming gardeners
who make our souls bloom.

--M. Proust

Can never have enough quotes!!!!!

[Peter Hernandez]

I don't know what the future holds but I know who holds the future.

[Yvonne Michelle]

My quote comes from my son's best friend, Miles McDermott, an amazing art school student. We were discussing art, and my style, and how I compare myself to others saying I know I'm not as good as most... and he said to me: "Art isn't about being good; it's about being creative." He inspired me to be creative and love myself and my art and creativity. It's my favorite quote ever!

[Nancy Kvorka]

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

[Honerloo]

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Harriet Tubman

[Shayna]

Life is like a rainbow. You need both the sun and the rain to make its colors appear.

[Carol]

Hi Kim - I have so many quotes I love but here are just two:

"At any given moment you have the power to say this is Not how the story is going to end"

"Sometimes it is better to be kind than to be right. We do not need an intelligent mind that speaks, but a patient heart that listens."

[Shayna]

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.