Chrissa Markos Photography

“By letting go it all gets done.”
-Lao Tzu
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«A forest bird never wants a cage.»
- Henrik Ibsen
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“One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever on the road.”
- Jack Kerouac
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“Life is simple, it’s either cherry red or midnight blue.”
- Lou Gramm
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tangled
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tangled in beautiful curls and a cashmere scarf
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“I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That’s where I belong.”
- Michael Phelps
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“Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”
- Herman Hesse
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also used some cool python code generated artwork by my son Nico 💙

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“The earth laughs in flowers.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
- Robert Frost
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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
- Marcel Proust
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“When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This is one of my favorite quotes that seems always to be relevant.
“How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?”
- Plato, Allegory of the Cave
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“If you did it all again, would you do it differently? Perfect, now do it differently.”
- Atticus
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“No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren..
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“Things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
- Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
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“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
- Dr. Seuss
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"A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live."
- Lao Tzu
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Silence
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Creative challenge week 40

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"What cannot be said will be wept."
-Sappho
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"The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"In peace children bury their parents; war violates this order and parents bury their kids."
- Herodotus
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