Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights Quotes

“look at its shape, with vibrant yellows and oranges, a sunflower can brighten your day...it's as if it is smiling like a happy face painted on the sun...so if you do only one thing all day, let it be to smile, so you can brighten the day of others around you, just like the sunflower”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“see me as your moonlight
and you're the sky, i'm the satellite
orbiting through your night”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“yeah, sure, the sun will age my skin, and all these giggles and smiles with you will, over time, will crack up my face and give me wrinkles...sunshine, giggles, smiles, you? that's happiness, baby i'm living!”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“travel to that place you always wanted to see, go see it, only excuses are stopping you. say all those things you wanted to say to those people you never said them to, only pride is keeping you from it. learn to do that thing you always wanted to do, and do it, only fear is holding you back...do not instead make up a list of all the stuff you want to do before you die, just start doing it, and do it now. do not wait for 'one day.' experience what you can right here, right now, before it all changes...because it will change. the tides of change are as constant as time itself. as buddha once said, ' nothing is forever except change'...so take nothing for granted, nothing is guaranteed except that it will all change one day...”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“we are made of the sea, of the stars, of the flowers, of the sand, of the breeze...that's why it is not correct to say we are in love, for we are in everything, we are love”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“this beautiful bird, a little yellow-breasted finch, landed on my windowsill...she just stopped my time flow...i looked at her, for i could see nothing else mattered in that moment, and she looked directly at me, and then turned her head slightly sideways, and then quickly back...she then sang to me a wonderful melody of tweets and chirps in harmony with the sound of sunshine glowing through her feathers...her wild and innocent essence warmed all my senses, to my core...and all of a sudden with an assured certainty, i knew everything was going to be alright”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“just as a autumn transforms a beautiful tree, fully ablaze in only its best colors, and blooming in full wisdom from all the seasons, so will the words well spoken bring out the best in the one who puts them into practice”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“i had a dream of you last night, i was all alone in the desert, surrounded by darkness on a desolate playa, and then you came to me and gave me light, you were the moon...i knew it was you, for you were the brightest of all the heavenly bodies, and something of this sort of certainty come but once in a lifetime”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“when i was a little boy, i needed my speedracer nightlight plugged into its wall outlet next to the bed to keep me calm in the darkness, so i could relax and fall asleep...now as a grown man, i find that i am no different, just my nightlight is now a person”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“the tree tops whisper your name when i'm missing you the most. your shadow is observing me... it all reminds me how much more my life glows in your presence”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“you are everything everywhere...my spirit rises up in your light, my heart blossoms in your colors, and my soul is born into your shade”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“the word, 'before,' has the meaning of what is right in front of you, as well as the idea of something that happened in the past....thus it is a word with a beautiful duality, and with in itself carries such a powerful meaning: live each moment before it is too late and you can no longer...and cherish all you have right before you now, because you never know when it will all be gone, all gone before you can even blink, *poof* just like that...”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“i dream my photograph, and i photograph my dream...”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“Let go of who you are, and become who you can be...”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“it is not selfish to be into loving yourself, and be into doing what you love, nor is it selfish to protect those things your love flows into...if anyone questions and doesn't support your methods and reasons for protecting your loves, then they are seriously the true selfish ones...”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“as the tides change and my life rolls on, i've seen things fall apart, but sometimes you just have to let them go to pieces, let them be and become what they may”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“the stars have seen so much change happen on our planet, but they remain silent, only a witness, smart enough not to resit and fight the change...we can see such infinite wisdom in the stars...”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“laying together on a blanket under the night sky, i see my perfect nightlight just as the moon shines on her body, her soft skin glowing into my soul in effervescence”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“i was lost in such a dark place, i lost my focus entirely. not sure of anything anymore for i no longer could see clearly, lost my sight of everything, could not even see the hand right in front of my face...ironically it was my darkness that showed me my light...sometimes you need the darkness, and i needed to be where i was surrounded by pitch blindness, so i could rediscover the importance of light, and understand the magnitude of seeing again...i needed to see the light clearly when she entered my darkness, for then i knew my focus, where i needed to go, where i wanted to go, knew the importance of seeing again as everything brightened. everything became more clear, more vivid as i got closer, closer to my enlightenment...through the darkness i finally found my light”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“step after step to find this frame in time, a nightlight illuminated me on this night, lighting me up and further helping me to continue to find my way, find meaning and discover my purpose, and my own light glowing inside me”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“there is nothing mystifying in the meaningful reason behind the observation: you always see so much more clearly after the mist clears”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“buddha said, 'nothing is forever except change'...so accept that, and live within the changes...because, that is life, live it here and now in this moment before it all ends, before it all changes and goes away”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“love what is before you, and you will find happily ever after”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“when you are one with the special one, love each other so freely, let your love be a moving sea of flowers between the shores of your souls”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“when you jump in, love is the sea...and in a sea of love, sometimes the tides cannot seem to carry you close enough, and other times they slam you into the shore, so always be the flower on the wave, carrying your tidings under your petals, joyful to be floating no matter where the sea might take you”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“why do birds fly? because they love the art of flying...why do people love? because we love the art of loving...being in love is like being a bird and flying...so if you are not embracing love right now, you are just a bird waiting to fly”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“the higher and higher we fly on our wing of love, the smaller and smaller we appear to those who have yet discovered that they have wings”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights

“let it be...let it go...flush thoughts...release noise, say aloha to the sunshine over your head and the pleasures right at your feet”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights