Feeling

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
--Henri Matisse

Light

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. --Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Swimming

The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land. --Joseph Conrad

Beauty

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerge

Just like the butterfly
I, too, will awaken
In my own time.