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James Allen – mind’s garden

Mind Quote / Leicester, England / 1864 - 1912 / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph – Garden flowers, Bowral Australia / LoadingBookmark

“A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind. “

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The Beach Boys – good vibrations

Mind Music / 1966 / Rock, Pop / 3.37 min / Photographer - Janet Zenari / Photograph - Vibrational Moth, Sydney Australia / LoadingBookmark

The song was composed and produced by Brian Wilson with lyrics by Mike Love and performed by The Beach Boys…

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Socrates – yourself

Mind Quote / Athens, Greece / 470 BC – 399 BC / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph – Solo pelican, Noosa River Tewantin Australia / LoadingBookmark

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”

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William Shakespeare – destiny

Soul Quote / Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England / 1564 - 1616 / Photographer – Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph - Sunset Desert, Dubai, United Arab Emirates / LoadingBookmark

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

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Winston Churchill – stumble

Soul Quote / Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, United Kingdom / 1874 - 1965 / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph - Path to Noosa National Park, Noosa Australia / LoadingBookmark

“Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.”

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Aristotle – habit

Mind Quote / Chaikidiki, Greece / 384 BC – 322 BC / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph – Small crab, Alexandria Bay, Noosa Australia / LoadingBookmark

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

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Leonardo da Vinci – connect

Soul Quote / Vinci, Italy / 1452 – 1519 / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph – Birds in flight, Snapper Rocks Australia / LoadingBookmark

“Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”

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Albert Einstein – walk alone

Mind Quote / Ulm, Germany / 1879 – 1955 / Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph – Path in Kata Tjuta, NT, Australia / LoadingBookmark

“If you follow the crowd, you will go no further than the crowd. But if you walk alone, and find your own way, you will likely find yourself in places no one has ever been before.”

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Henry David Thoreau – thanksgiving

Soul Quote / Concord, Massachusetts, United States / 1817 -1862 / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph – Yellow hibiscus at Rainbow, Rainbow Bay Australia / LoadingBookmark

“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite — only a sense of existence.”

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Helen Keller – sunshine

Soul Quote / Tuscumbia, Alabama, United States / 1880-1968 / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph – Sun on Rainbow, Rainbow Bay Australia / LoadingBookmark

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”

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George Bernard Shaw – circumstance

Mind Quote / Dublin, Republic of Ireland / 1856 – 1950 / Photographer – Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph – Strzelecki monument, Jindabyne Australia / LoadingBookmark

“I don’t believe in circumstance, the people that get on in this world, are the people that get up and look for their circumstances they want, and if they don’t find them, they make them.”

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Hans Christian Andersen – miracles

Soul Quote / Odense, Funen, Kingdom of Denmark and Norway (modern Denmark) / 1805 – 1875 / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph – Resting blue butterfly, Sydney Australia / LoadingBookmark

“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we’re so used to them we call them ordinary things.”

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