Maroon Asmar

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” Rumi

I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door.

Marla Gibbs

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.
Alanis Morissette

There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen

Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.
Pina Bausch

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

Erica Jong

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

Martin Gardner

“ONLY THOSE WHO RISK GOING TOO FAR CAN POSSIBLY FIND OUT HOW FAR THEY CAN GO.”

T. S. Eliot

When thoughts arise, we do not judge them, analyze them, or try to change them--instead, we watch them pass by like clouds floating in the sky of our mind, and gently return our gaze back to the Divine.
A. Helwa

“We're tired of trees. We should stop believing in trees, roots, and radicles. They've made us suffer too much. All of arborescent culture is founded on them, from biology to linguistics. Nothing is beautiful or loving or political aside from underground stems and aerial root, adventitious growths and rhizomes.“ — Gilles Deleuze

n each epoch memory reconstructs an image of the past that is in accord with the predominant thoughts of the society.
Maurice Halbwachs

“Many times the wrong train took me to the right place.”

-Paulo Coelho.

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

Naomi Wolf

I'm not so interested in how they move as in what moves them.
Pina Bausch

But the beauty is in the walking -- we are betrayed by destinations.
Gwyn Thomas

“Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s fine. It’s not their journey to make sense of. It’s yours.” ― Zero Dean

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Paul Valery

If you're reading this...
Congratulations, you're alive.
If that's not something to smile about,
then I don't know what is.
Chad Sugg,

Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” —Guy Finley.

Requiem for a dream . That's why you can't be worried about the world. They'll just do you in anyway. You can't depend on them because sooner or later they'll turn on you or just disappear and leave you there alone.
Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

Crazy Fantasy. I don’t have a dirty mind, I have a sexy imagination.
Unknown. Mixed media (sold)

The King . In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Desiderius Erasmus. Painting by (sold)

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

Paul Cézanne

“Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody’s hands.”

- Peter Brant -

We all have the same root, and are connected...
To tap into this connectedness we must go within.
Summerlyn Guthrie