Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.
Albert Camus
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.
Carl Jung
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love...
Marcis Aurelius
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabindranath Tagore
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
Fredrich Nietzsche, "The Portable Nietzsche"
There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.
Simone de Beauvoir
...it is ironic, that the more honest we become the more we risk being offensive even to those we most respect.
William Williams
We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.
Joan Didion
What a terrible thing it is wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.
Haruki Murakami
I'm just delighted to be living, to be able to have a simple conversation, to feel a ray of sunlight on my skin and listen to the breeze move through the leaves of a tree.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
dreams and photographs