H for Happiness

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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This post forms a part of the Blogging for A to Z Challenge. A quote a day based on the chosen word. A photograph that means something to me in relation to the word, but may not to you.

F for Facade

“I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is. I don't know. Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't. I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

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This post forms a part of the Blogging for A to Z Challenge. A quote a day based on the chosen word. A photograph that means something to me in relation to the word, but may not to you.

No Winter

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
― Hal Borland 

New Year's Day

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.”
― Edith Lovejoy Pierce

The colour purple

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

give each other flowers

Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they're killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? "Sweetheart, let's make up. Have this deceased squirrel."

.. she hath wings

Be like the "bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings."
Victor Hugo

They won't die

“One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies.
“They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die.”
― Jess C. Scott, The Devilin Fey
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Words. Images. Thoughts. Ideas. Generalizations. Specifics. Stream of Consciousness.
During the month of October, I am going to just watch things fall into place, or not!

Every flower is to bloom

"It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower is to bloom." 

—Alice Walker

First time

“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

Betty Smith

a cup of rain

"Unknowingly, we breathe the dust of the stars, blown about us by the wind, and drink the universe in a cup of rain."

Ihab Hassan

And not pluck one

“I will be the gladdest thing

Under the sun!

I will touch a hundred flowers

And not pick one.” 

― Edna St. Vincent Millay "Afternoon on a Hill" 

# 4 : The Faces Project

"Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be."

Lauren Hutton

T is for Tomlin, Lily Tomlin

"Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket."

Lily Tomlin

600,000 girls go missing in India every year- aborted before they are born; killed at childbirth; abandoned in infancy, allowed to die of mal-nourishment or lack of timely medical care.

As a part of A-Z Challenge, the blog will host a photograph of a woman who survived, along with a quote by a famous (or not so famous) woman. 

A is for Anthony, Susan B. Anthony

"Failure is impossible."
Susan B. Anthony

600,000 girls go missing in India every year- aborted before they are born; killed at childbirth; abandoned in infancy, allowed to die of mal-nourishment or lack of timely medical care.

As a part of A-Z Challenge, the blog will host a photograph of a woman who survived, along with a quote by a famous (or not so famous) woman. 

.. an icon

"I never think of myself as an icon. What's in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing." Audrey Hepburn

...achieved perfection...

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, 
but when there is nothing left to take away."

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

.... into the heart of the night

“Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.”

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

... springs that are yours

"For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours."
Pam Brown

... the hand that does not grasp.

"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."
~ John Berry