cruelty

 

 

 

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Seneca

space

 

 

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.

Viktor Frankl

darkness

 

 

If you're in pitch darkness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

question

 

 

 

There are two sides to every question.

Protagoras

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