“In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”― Bertrand Russell
“I believe in intuitions and inspirations…I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.”― Albert Einstein
“Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”― Tony Schwartz
“In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.”― David Hume
“I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.”― Ludwig Wittgenstein
If you build the faith to trust a friend as God, then your heart can never be broken.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
“Knowledge is so comforting, but so is mystery.”― Deb Caletti
“Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.”― W.H. Auden
“Remember, thy own shadow isn’t far from thyself; in reality, it always follows thee, even in complete darkness (and in silence).”― Sandeep N. Tripathi
“Cultivate balance. After all, there’s no such thing as a shadow without the involvement of light.”― Erica Alex
“A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see…”Terry Tempest Williams
“Deep within, there is something profoundly known, not consciously, but subconsciously. A quiet truth, that is not a version of something, but an original knowing. What [is] this, absolute, truth…We are offspring’s of such a powerfully divine force – Creator of all things known and unknown.”― T.F. Hodge
“You can truly learn so much, by simply getting to know the “you” that is behind the reality of yourself.”― Lionel Suggs
“A balanced inner calmness radiates from a peaceful center. It neither craves others’ approval nor rejects others’ presence. It neither pulls towards nor pushes away. It has a reverent attitude towards life and all its inhabitants.”― Donna Goddard
“Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.”― Deepak Chopra
“Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love light and compassion. Life will be beautiful.”― Amit Ray
“You’re not what you do. You are your intentions.”― Kiyo Giaozhi
“When you feel out of sorts for reasons that you can’t understand, spend some time with your inner self to analyze and locate the areas where you are wasting – or draining – your energies.”― Dr Prem Jagyasi
“Love can tell us so many things about the deep waters of our inner self and the secrecy in the hidden brushwood of our emotions. ― Erik Pevernagie
“The body is an outstanding source of strength; the mind an incredible source of intelligence; the heart an uncommon source of might; and the soul a remarkable source of power.”― Matshona Dhliwayo
“What if winters were only there to make flowers bloom and not to see them dying in summer heat?”― Crestless Wave
“Don’t worry about negative temperatures because minus times minus equals plus. If you are not very good at Maths, then put some rum in the tea.”― Ljupka Cvetanova
“I love winters. I can pretend to have a terrible cough and cold almost every day just to keep colleagues away.”― Nitya Prakash
“Winters are a desolate time where all senses are wiped away, and here in Canada, this is especially true. All smells are sucked clean from the air, leaving only a harsh, icy crispness…[And] Stay outside too long, and your hands will get so cold that they’ll go numb and turn red, like the claws of a lobster.” ― Rebecca McNutt
“Don’t sell the warmer for an air conditioner just because its summer, for in winter, you will have to do the reverse.”― Ikechukwu Izuakor
Winter, I wrote, was akin to living inside a refrigerator.”― Okey Ndibe
“I love the scent of winter. I love the scent of winter enough to suffer the cold for it.”― Tiffany Reisz
“There was a solace in a snow-laden forest wrapped in night found nowhere else, a loneliness that made me better acquainted with myself.”― Lisa Lueddecke
“To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.”― Marty Rubin
This afternoon outside temperature -23 Celsius -actual temperature with windchill was -31 Celsius or some such frigidity in the minus thirties. I took the photos from inside my car. The spots are snow flakes on my windshield.
Photos taken with my cell phone – Samsung Galaxy J3
“We tend to think we are actually “thinking” about a thought when it appears in the mind. However you are not your thoughts. Realizing this allows conscious awakening.”― Steve Leasock
“Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?”― Sigmund Freud
“Learning how to think’ really means learning how to exercise some control over how & what you think. It means being conscious & aware enough to choose what you pay attention to & to choose how you construct meaning from experience.” ― David Foster Wallace
“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”― Marcus Aurelius
“The subconscious mind does not care about what we consciously call reality.” ― Wayne Gerard Trotman
“Never underestimate the power of thought; it is the greatest path to discovery.” ― Idowu Koyenikan
“One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison.” ― Frances Hodgson Burnet
