“I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or confidence in new ventures; there is a strange strain within me when advantage is not taken of some situation, the immediacy of recognition of the rightness or wrongness of a mood, a response, a decision - they are so often valid that I am increasingly convinced that we have yet to grasp the reality of existence.” RealitySeemsPastFallDecisionExistenceSituationVisionTakenStrangeAdvantageResponseIntuitionConvincedMoodRecognitionLogicalSignificanceSuspicionVentureStrainSequenceMy PastPast LifeImmediacyRetrospectiveNew Ventures Author:Ansel Adams
“Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound and unique significance. We can create.” MotivationalPastImaginationUniqueProfoundSignificanceContemplatingAnticipate Book:The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
“Everyone has a bookplate these days, and the collectors are after it. The fool and his bookplate are soon parted. To distribute one's ex libris is inanely to destroy the only significance it has, that of indicating the past or present ownership of the volume in which it is placed.” PastFoolThese DaysSignificanceOwnershipVolumeExesCollectors Author:Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance.” YearsFeelingsPastLeftWhiteBonesSignificanceBleach Book:The Light Between Oceans: A Novel Source: The Light Between Oceans: A Novel