Freedom

"The only true law is that which sets us free."

- Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Flight

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! We can learn to fly!



- Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Adumbration

"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Warmth

“Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity we shall harness the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”

- Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Optimism

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

- Henri Matisse

Incertitude

"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Rise

"Our aspirations are our possibilities"

- Robert Browning

Imagination

"I shut my eyes in order to see."

- Paul Guaguin

Connections

"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind and therefore never send to know

for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

- John Donne, Devotions upon emergent occasions and seuerall steps in my sicknes - Meditation XVII, 1624

Autumn

"No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face."
 
- John Donne, Elegy IX: The Autumnal

Green

"Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned."

- Pink Floyd, Green is the Colour

Fall

"Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold,
Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay."

- Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay