Pete Walsh

Category: General

  • Offer

    Stop asking what you want and start asking what you have to offer.

    Comparison is the thief of joy.

  • Do the good

    …that you have the power to do.

  • Work

    Get your work done. If that doesn’t work, shut up and drink your gin.

    Ray Bradbury

  • Injustice

    …to not let the injustice of what could have been, override all the joy of what was.

    Jack Rooke

  • Horizon

    Turning away from a flight from death, you see a horizon of opportunity that puts you in a state of anticipatory resoluteness with solicitous regard for others that makes your life seem like an adventure perfused with unshakeable joy.

    Heidegger, Martin

  • Minor White

    “If you could stop the shouting of your own voice in your ears, you might be able to hear the small voice of… a pine cone in the sun.”

    – Minor White (via David Ward)

  • Anton Chekhov

    “These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.”

    Anton Chekhov

  • A thousand stories

    We all have just one story to tell, and we tell it a thousand ways.

    Sally Mann paraphrasing Elizabeth Strout

    ‘You will have only one story,’ she had said. ‘You’ll write your one story many ways. Don’t ever worry about story. You have only one.’

    Elizabeth Strout, from My Name is Lucy Barton

  • I will put my ship in order

    I will put my ship in order
    And I will set her on the sea
    And I will sail to yonder harbor
    To see if my love minds on me

    I drew my ship into the harbor
    I drew her up where my true love lay
    I drew her close up to the window
    To listen what my true love did say

    “Oh who is that at my bower window?
    That raps so loudly and would be in?”
    “It is your true love that loves you dearly
    So rise, dear love, and let him in”

    Then slowly, slowly rose she up
    And slowly, slowly came she down
    But before she had the door unlocked
    Her true love had both come and gone

    “Come back, come back, my own true love
    Come back, come back, come to my side
    I never grieved you nor yet deceived you
    And I will surely be your bride”

    “The fish shall fly, the seas run dry, love
    The rocks shall melt with the sun
    The laboring men shall forget their labor
    Before that I return again”

  • Pain

    Do something meaningful with your pain.

  • Art

    Art

    “Art is the earths memory made tangible for human minds.”

    – Peter Walsh
  • Happy End

    Happy End

    “All around us, the world, and we, in its midst, blind.”

    – Michael Haneke, from the movie Happy End