home

 

Home is not where you were born or grew up. Home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

Naguib Mahfouz

hardest

 

 

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Bertrand Russell

not a king

 

 

 

NOT A KING!!

NOT A KING!!

beauty

 

 

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

Amit Ray

dancing

 

 

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Friedrich Nietzsche

bitterness

 

 

 

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

Zora Neale Hurston

dismiss

 

 

The majority of people dismiss those things that lie beyond the bounds of their own understanding and absurd and not worth thinking about.

Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird

Happy Pride

 

HAPPY PRIDE, NYC

service

 

 

Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.

Marian Wright Edleman

age

 

 

Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age and certain memories can never fade. 

Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird

get

 

 

Folks, I'm telling you. birthing is hard and dying is mean-so get yourself a little loving in between.

Langston Hughes

aim

 

 

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Henry Miller

devour

 

 

Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

alert

 

 

 

Unlike the stomach, the brain doesn't alert you when it's empty.

Arabic Proverb

pictures

 

 

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

Elliot Erwitt

price

 

 

 

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Henry David Thoreau

inside

 

 

 

It's inside myself that I must create someone who will understand.

Clarice Lispector

changed

 

 

 

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Malcolm X

life

 

 

 

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting of of it.

 Carl Jung

time

 

 

In any case, time is not a thing that passes, said Pilar, "it's a sea on which you float."

Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood

feelings

 

 

Feelings can be like wild animals - we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage.

Richard Paul Evans

fear

 

 

 

Where your fear is, there your task is.

Carl Jung

86 47

 

 

 

the face of chaos

86 47

86 47

life

 

 

Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?

Tennessee Williams

truth

 

 

 

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

George Orwell

dreamer

 

 

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Oscar Wilde, The Critic as An Artist

look

 

 

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming of.

Alice Walker

fools

 

 

The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity and arrogance they have. All these fools, however, find other fools who applaud them.

Eramus

purpose

 

 

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Carl Jung

guilt

 

When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

Hannah Arendt