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Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. -- Henry David Thoreau Alright.. so this post is a bit ...
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: When you desired a ...
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully. -- Frances Moore Lappe, picture taken in a train late at night.. going home ...
To believe and to hold on to everything that was once promised To everything that would be Now fading away... selfportrait, taken by candle light no post processing I must wait for the sunrise ...
The particular human chain we're part of is central to our individual identity. -- Elizabeth Stone It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, ...
You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward ...
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. -- Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics The deadline for my hardest and most important exams, is getting closer ...
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld picture taken on perenthian island-Malaysia I don't generally ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
'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, ...
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. -- Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark, 1915 So... Already three month of a new life, miles away.. 5h ahead of europe... New world, ...
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 ...
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 parc ...
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 ...
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 The Dongba ...
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 simply because it is spoken and ...
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 ...
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 tenderness. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 d'avant Brisé mes ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 hostage of ...
We go where our vision is. -- Joseph Murphy Since I obviously can't catch up.. and tell you with a long and nice story everything that did happen in China.. Here are at least some ...
« ... 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 : words can be the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. -- Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952 Anniversaire d'Aurore boucle d'or. Une flambée d'étincelles et le coeur d'une ...
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: ...