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 John Singer Sargent - "The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy"

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
 Ralph Waldo Emerson

  

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I found this beautiful photo here.

Fundamentally, our Lord's message was Himself. He did not come merely to preach a Gospel; He himself is that Gospel. He did not come merely to give bread; He said, "I am the bread." He did not come merely to shed light; He said, "I am the light." He did not come merely to show the door; He said, "I am the door." He did not come merely to name a shepherd; He said, "I am the shepherd." He did not come merely to point the way; He said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." --J. Sidlow Baxter


Blessings to you all on this Palm Sunday :)

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Giovanni Boldini

"I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo. And if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all."
Richard Wright

Sunday Citar - The Gift of Nature

The beauty of Victoria Falls forms a natural border
between Zambia and Zimbabwe.
(photographer unknown)

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
George Washington Carver

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.
Henry David Thoreau

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John Singer Sargent - Two Girls Lying on the Grass

In our gathering, in our containing, in our
working active within ourselves,
slowly the pale
dew beads of light
lapped up from flowers
can thicken
darken to gold:
honey of the human

Denise Levertov

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John William Waterhouse - "The Flower Picker"

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
John Muir

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
George Washington Carver

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
e.e. cummings

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sunday Citar - Happy Mother's Day

Renoir

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts."
Washington Irving

Happy Mother's Day everyone!

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Mary Cassatt

"Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us."
Guy de Maupassant

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John William Waterhouse - "Miranda"

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.
Robert Johnson

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Renoir

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Henri Matisse

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott

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Christine Herter - "Light and Shadow"

“Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.”
Thaddeus Golas

"I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self."
Maya Angelou


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Mabel Alvarez - Self-Portrait

You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
Gaston Bachelard

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John William Waterhouse - "Boreas"

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Jorge Luis Borges

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Sunday Citar - Millet and Emily Dickinson

Jean Francois Millet - "The Shepherdess"

A charm invests a face
Imperfectly beheld.
The lady dare not lift her veil
For fear it be dispelled.

But peers beyond her mesh,
And wishes, and denies,
'Lest interview annul a want
That image satisfies.

Emily Dickinson

For Sunday Citar with Fresh Mommy, I look for a painting and a quote that speak to each other in a way. This painting by Millet has been on my mind all week. This shepherdess has her own kind of Dickinson "veil" as she carries unspoken emotion and possible distress on her petite shoulders. I knew that I needed to post it for you.

I know that the painting especially strikes a chord with me today because it is the 9th anniversary of my father's passing. I kind of feel like that shepherdess today. I miss my Dad.

Thanks to everyone for your wonderful Christmas wishes!! I hope you all enjoyed the holiday very much. I'm happy to say that I'm not surrounded by wrapping paper and cardboard anymore. One kid after another seemed to pop up next to me over the past two days saying, "Can you open this one?" Can you tell that Santa Grandma came bearing her toy sack on Christmas?

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John Singer Sargent - "The Black Brook"

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo

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Renoir

Boldini

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
Faith Baldwin

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Jules Bastien-Lepage's painting of St. Joan of Arc

"Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb."
Nadine Gordimer

"With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how."
Doris Lessing

"No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent."
Susan B. Anthony

"Good words will not give me back my children."
Chief Joseph

"Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved."
Patricia Schroeder

I love searching for thought-provoking quotes for Sunday Citar with Fresh Mommy. Sunday Citar also gives me an opportunity to share some of my favorite paintings. It's a wonderful way to begin my Sunday! Hope everyone has a beautiful day :)

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photographer unknown

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.
Eugene O'Neill

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
Zora Neale Hurston

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
Thomas Merton

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Henri Manguin

"By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."
Franz Kafka

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
Robert Frost

"Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."
Langston Hughes

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Sunday Citar (Don't worry; be happy!)

Edgar Degas

You can feel the excitement and bustle of activity as these dancers get ready to perform. This is one of my favorite Degas paintings.

It's time to join in with Fresh Mommy for Sunday Citar. My kids start school in 3 days. I'm excited and nervous at the same time. Here are some quotes to ease my anxious mind.

"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy." - Leo Buscaglia

"Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow." - Proverb

"We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends, and living our lives." - Maya Angelou

I feel better already :) Happy Sunday!