~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Category: Wings
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Wings Dream on, dream on
there's nothing wrong If you dream on, dream on Of being a swan ~ Michele Centonze, Elisa Toffoli, Swan Category: Wings When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
~ Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom. And Community: Eight Essays Category: Wings I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.
~ Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby Category: Wings If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff?
~ George Carlin Category: Wings Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
~ Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost Category: Wings I am flying,
I am flying Like a bird 'Cross the sky I am flying, Passing high clouds To be with you, To be free ~ Rod Stewart: Sailing Category: Wings Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
~ Langston Hughes Category: Wings Close your eyes, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, stop breathing for 3 seconds, listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, which was taught in immense milky way soft cloud innumerable worlds long ago and not even at all.
~ Jack Kerouac, The Portable Jack Kerouac Category: Wings Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was an Italian philosopher, mathematician an astrologer. He is celebrated for his cosmological theories, which went even further than the then-novel Copernican model, proposing that the stars were just distant suns surrounded by their own planets, and moreover the possibility that these planets could even foster life of their own. He also insisted that the Universe is in fact infinite, thus having no celestial body at its ‘center’.
Bruno was tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition and in 1600 was burned at the stake in Rome's Campo de Fiori. After his death he gained considerable fame, particularly among 19th and early 20th century commentators who regarded him as a martyr for science. Today marks 415th anniversary of his death. Image above comes from my Wings series. Category: Diary Wings Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me; you'll love it up here.
~ Donald Trump Category: Wings Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen; Ring the Bells Category: Wings You have always given me more than I gave to you. You were the wings on which I soared.
~ Lotte Lehmann Category: Wings I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings. ~ Gustave Flaubert
Photograph from my ‘Wings’ series. Category: Wings “Men," he began his address to the officers, measuring his pauses carefully. "You're American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it.”
Joseph Heller: Catch-22 Catch-22 is a satirical novel by the American author Joseph Heller (1923-1999). It is set during World War II from 1942 to 1944. The novel follows Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier. Most of the events in the book occur while the fictional 256th Squadron is based on the island of Pianosa, in the Mediterranean Sea, west of Italy. The phrase Catch-22 has entered the English language, referring to a type of unsolvable logic puzzle. The novel is frequently cited as one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century and was first published by Simon & Schuster on 11 November 1961. Photograph above is from my ongoing series ‘Wings’. Category: Diary Wings |
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