The bleak morning shook its mantle of grey fleeting clouds.
The golden, dry light swatted the stiff furrows.
The shrill scream of a puffy blue jay scarred the open sky.
... The only reality in the world is the passion for growth.
You have to climb to reach a deep thought.
Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.
We won't find ourselves in some retreat, but on the road, in the town, in the midst of the crowd, a thing among things, a man among men.
Unlike most other famous Indian figures, no picture was ever obtained of Crazy Horse, whose reply to any request to photograph him was: "My friend, why should you wish to shorten my life by taking my shadow?"
Touch the earth.
A shepherd in the mountains of Ariège - France.
[ Hear a sound file of a sheperd in the mountains of Ariège - France ]
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
And it is possible that, in the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questioning is more important than his answers.
André Malraux - Anti-memoirs.
It may well seem to you that the sun is shining more brightly and that everything has taken on a new charm. That, at any rate, is the inevitable consequence of true love, I believe, and it is a wonderful thing. And I also believe that those who hold that no one thinks clearly when in love are wrong, for it is at just that time that one thinks very clearly indeed and is more energetic than one was before. And love is something eternal, it may change in aspect but not in essence. And there is the same difference between someone who is in love and what he was like before as there is between a lamp that is lit and one that is not. The lamp was there all the time and it was a good lamp, but now it is giving light as well and that is its true function. And one has more peace of mind about many things and so is more likely to do better work.
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo
Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.
Albert Camus
(In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.)
"There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work."
Lewis Hine - American photographer
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The Emir of Bukhara, Alim Khan would love to talk to you.
A snowflake never falls in the wrong place.
Zen proverb
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
