Upon deciding to post a photo to Twitter yesterday, the idea of adding an interesting and inspirational quote wasn't far behind. After all, I like quotes! I considered several quotes, most of them too long for Twitter. Yet I have a blog as well as a Twitter account, which means I can just post some of the quotes I would have liked to add, right here. The photo is a cropped and slightly edited version of a photo I shared for last week's two-part Photo Challenge -
part one: Birds and
part two: Ducks. The colours in this version feel a little more alive than in the previous / original version. As it was a warm and sunny day when I took the photo, the sunnier look of this version feels fitting.
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| Small wings, big ripples |
“We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.”
“He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all”
After considering the two quotes above from
Richard Bach's book
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
but finding them too long for Twitter, I searched Goodreads for other quotes. What I found was a very inspirational set of quotes by
Amit Ray.
I haven't read any of his books, however after reading some of his
quotes, I will definitely be looking through his books to see which
interest me the most. First, the quote I used for Twitter:
“Our wings are small but the ripples of the heart are infinite.”
It's a short quote, however both the 'wings' and the 'ripples' match the photo quite well. The quote feels appropriate. I wanted to write something like Reach for the sky, Follow your dreams or Spread your wings and fly however those over-used expressions didn't sound quite right. Amit Ray's quote however did. Here are some of the other quotes I considered (yes, only some!):
“Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.”
“A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.”
(From: World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird)
“Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty.” (From: World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird)
“If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.”
And lastly, one that struck me as very true indeed. It also matches my thinking, which is no doubt why it 'resonated' with me:
“To realize the truth, you have to cross the boundaries of all religions and prophets.” (From: Meditation: Insights and Inspirations)
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