If we value the pursuit of knowledge,
we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy...
"It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us.
It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression
and law and irksome obligations, with absolute...
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those
who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstances
Bruce Barton
'It started out as a feeling
which then grew into a hope,
which then...
You can't separate peace from freedom
because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.--
Malcolm
X, Malcolm X
Speaks, 1965
sea of clouds, 5:30am while watching
the sun rise over Mt Bromo on Java Island
In two...
'Within a stolen moment of time between sky and earth, into the mist of horizon,
thoughts are hanging...'
Nizar B.
Lost in time, nowhere to be found
but in this no man's land.
Out of reach from...
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves,
it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Come night, be welcome.
Your peace speaks gentleness,
your...
Long time. No See...
Note that for once.. this is not because of some sort of lazyness of mine.. Nope not at all.
Let's just say that it's actually quite an adventure to get a decent connection...
A long long trip to the other side of the world.. with a stop in Frankfurt & Singapur on the way. Killed time by taking picture and sharing story with another fellow traveler from
Germany.
...
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
-- Henry Miller
Today is the day!I'm on my way to Jakarta.. a 17hours flight, a stop at Frankfurt and
another one in Singapour.Will be...
The guy who takes a chance,
who walks the line between the known and unknown,
who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.
-- Gordon Parks
The quotation up there say it all..
Pic taken in a...
Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
-- Robert Henri
How pale is the sky that brings forth the rain
As the changing of seasons prepares me again
For the long bitter nights and the wild winter's day
My heart has...
For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.
-- Clarence E. Hodges
Dongba Aspiration Windbell
Reminiscence of my wandering in Lijiang, China-2007...
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
Charles F. Kettering
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything...
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights;
it is a change that goes on..
deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
Miriam Beard
Tous les visages parlent d'eux même avant qu'on les connaisse,
...
Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.
-- Denise
Levertov
...
A butterfly lowers and rises
With the winds's gusty breath,
As if coupled within a dance
Of a loving...
I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
Petit post pour Eva qui se demandait pourquoi aucune évidence de mon nouveau séjour en...
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. Author: Aeschylus- Agamemnon (928)
While we talk warm talks,
soften to the intimacy
that comes with blessed touch...
Learn deep to remember
through the...
The farther behind I leave the past,
the closer I am to forging my own character.
-- Isabelle Eberhardt
'Au 27-100 rue des Partances
J'ai revu mes tristesses...
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
-- Andre Gide
'I'm on my way to what I want from this world
And years from now you'll make it to the next world
And everything...
Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale,
And nightly to the listening earth
Repeats the story of her birth
Joseph Addison
A trail of sparkling thoughts
spinning around at an incredible...
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
-Henry David Thoreau
When all the wheels stop and the night is still,
When the clickety-clacking of time holds you,
When you're an...
« ... with sweetness through mine ear
Dissolve me into ectasies »
John Milton
A whispered term of endearment, a flirtatious phrase, a secret suggestion,
a cry of passion...
What I dream of is an art of balance.
-Henry Matisse
Souvenirs de mes derniers jours en solitaire, il y a 5mois déjà..
dans la grande & belle capitale, tout en changements.
L'avant veille de mon départ, déambulation dans le...
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell.
~Emily Dickinson, "Parting"
L'encre n'a pas sechée au coeur des parchemins
Les feuilles volent sans fin, toutes ces cartes et ces routes...
Search then the ruling passion;
there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known;
The fool consistent, and the false sincere;
Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
Author: Alexander Pope.
Source: Moral Essays (ep. I, l....
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
Author: George Eliot
Television: where Insanity rules this modern world
Fiertée souveraine d'un regard...
There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and
brain.
Author: Madison Julius Cawein
Immuable & Impalpable.. à en perdre toutes croyances
Ma douce névrose..
Indécis &...
Hope is a strange invention--
A Patent of the Heart-- In unremitting action
Yet never wearing out.
Author: Emily Dickinson
De retour à vagabonder sur les quais de La Rochelle, mais également dans les amphithéatres de...
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
[Lat., Amicus est tanquam alter idem.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Amicitia (XXI, 80 (adapted))
...
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness.
Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret,
how to acquire without meanness.--
George Sand
Moine Tibétain.
Photo prise à...
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your
fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically,
make you a far happier and more productive person.
-- Dr. David M. Burns
...