abstains

 

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot

i shall

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Ansel Adams

no one

 

Sometimes I don't care if no one understands me.

Yohji Yamamoto

saddest

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

*anti-vaxxer and anti-covid passport march

pain

 

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Anonymous

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth and in me

hope

 

Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

Anne Frank

pillars

 

Love and compassion are pillars of world peace.

The Dalai Lama

advantage

 

Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy.

Thelonious Monk

amazed

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams.

André Breton

resolution

 

I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.

André Breton

disciplined

Be disciplined about what you respond and react to. Not everyone or everything deserves your time, energy and attention. Stay in your light.

Anonymous

you

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

silence

 

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

Thelonious Monk

actions

Actions always prove why words mean nothing.

Anonymous

ourselves

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Lord Buddha

aim

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

secret

 

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Albert Einstein

life

 

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. 

Søren Kierkegaard

unexamined

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

life

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. 

Søren Kierkegaard 

traveling

Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, "I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my stations."

Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

picture

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

Andy Warhol

opener

Be an opener of doors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

life

 

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

every day

 

Every day I walk out into the world to be dazzled, then to be reflective.

Mary Oliver

because

 

Don't cry because it came to an end; smile because it happened.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

everything

Let everything happen to you/ Beauty and terror/ Just keep going/ No feeling is final.

Rainer Maria Rilke

9/11

 

We Remember

sept 11, 2001

(internet photo)

happiness

 If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

Jules Renard

silent

In the silent place where loneliness is found I'll wander through the open door to look for you.

Françoise Hardy, If You Listen 

words

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Blaise Pascal

love

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer that person is your presence.

Nhat Hanh

wake

 

It's only when you wake up that you notice you were sleeping.

Anonymous

end

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

Franklin D Roosevelt

progress

It was the only way to progress, to stop.

Samuel Beckett

pictures

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

Marc Riboud

fortune

Fortune favors the brave.

old Roman saying

heals

Please remember, it is what you are that heals, not what you know.

Carl Jung

difference

 

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

Anonymous

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth

and in me

time machine

We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.

H.G. Wells

dreamer

You may say I'm a dreamer / But I'm not the only one / I hope someday you'll join us / And the world will be as one

John Lennon, Imagine

see

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. 

Antoine de Saint-Expuéry, Le Petit Prince

simultaneously

The past, present and future are all happening simultaneously because there is only one moment in time that exists, has ever existed or will ever exist.

Albert Einstein

witness

My memory stammers: but my soul is a witness.

James Baldwin

religion

My religion is very simple, my religion is kindness.

HH The Dalai Lama

matter

 

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

Lord Buddha

evil

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when do it from religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal 

presence

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer that person is your presence.

Nhat Hanh