leslie ricken:
“Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.”
leslie ricken:
“It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue”
leslie ricken:
It's the tropical look
leslie ricken:
surf fence
leslie ricken:
“Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.”
leslie ricken:
Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
leslie ricken:
“The key to change... is to let go of fear.”
leslie ricken:
“Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.”
leslie ricken:
“Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.”
leslie ricken:
in flight
leslie ricken:
“Paradise is seldom recognized as such until it is considered from the outside.”
leslie ricken:
“If today were a fish I'd throw it back”
leslie ricken:
“Sunlight is painting.”
leslie ricken:
“Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?”
leslie ricken:
“Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself”
leslie ricken:
“Paradise is seldom recognized as such until it is considered from the outside.”
leslie ricken:
I hate flowers....
leslie ricken:
“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
leslie ricken:
“What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.”
leslie ricken:
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leslie ricken:
“I dropped a tear in the ocean, and whenever they find it I'll stop loving you, only then.”
leslie ricken:
“You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.”
leslie ricken:
“Belief means not wanting to know what is true”
leslie ricken:
“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”
leslie ricken:
“We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.”
leslie ricken:
“The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach”
leslie ricken:
“A radical is a person with both feet firmly planted in the air.”
leslie ricken:
“Landscape shapes culture”
leslie ricken:
“Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.”