“Let no obstacle deter you from proceeding with courage”
Saint Mary MacKillop, 1907
In this performance I’m wearing a baggy white Kmart T-shirt with a hand drawn image of Mary MacKillop holding an amazement neon. The drawing on the t-shirtwas drawn with a black Sharpie pen.
I came across this word amazement while searching for quotes to go with my sketchbook drawings this morning.
“Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.”
Dalai Lama
I love this quote by the Dalai Lama as when I wake up early on weekdays to do my exercise that I find it hard to get out of bed quite often but that fades slowly as I cycle and meet my great grandmother friend Gwenda at my exercise destination. I always say the same thing: the only wisdom greater than a grandmother’s is a great grandmother’s or great, great grandmothers.
While drawing this morning, I found this quote by David Attenborough.
“People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.”
I love this quote by David Attenborough, and I have the same amazement and pleasure in nature, particularly when I’m cycling and seeing the ocean each morning.
Audrey Hepburn on life’s capacity: “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands—one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”
I love this quote by Audrey Hepburn, and I feel in my life sometimes I need others’ helping hand and sometimes I have a helping hand for others and each is equally as important.
In conclusion I feel that having amazement and awe for life in my life and in the lives of people I admire makes for a happy life and a meaningful life.
