Photograph by *m.a.u*
“It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe.”
- Tom Paine
Posts Tagged ‘Man’
Faithful
Posted in Life, Quotes, Society, tagged Believe, Believing, Disbelieving, Faithful, Happiness, Infidelity, Man, Mentally, quote, Tom Paine on June 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Tradegy
Posted in Life, Mankind, Quotes, tagged Arnold Bennett, Capacity, Effort, Life, Man, Never, Quotes, Stature, Tradegy on May 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Photograph by RengimMutevellioglu
The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
- Arnold Bennett
Red
Posted in Life, Mankind, Poetry, Ramblings, Random, tagged Awaken, Beat, Birth, Blood, Blood Red, Breathe, Child, Dawn, Demise, Eat, empty, flickr, Flow, Hate, Life, Life Blood, Man, Mankind, Oceans, photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pulse, Red, Reek, River, Rivers, Seeth, Sight, Skies, Sky, sleep, Strom, Valley, Valleys, Vengeance on January 26, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Photograph by nixArt
Let rivers flow
Flow red with hate
Flow red with vengeance
Let rivers flow
Flow red with man
Flow red with child
Let rivers flow
Flow red with blood
Strom red blood
Life blood
Let rivers flow
Flow and empty
Empty into oceans
Red oceans
Red rivers
Red valleys
Red skies
To every birth red
Every child red
For whose sight is red
Breathe red
Eat red
Sleep to red
Awaken to red
Red to dawn
Red to demise
Every beat [...]
Errors
Posted in Character, Life, Love, Photography, Quotations, Quotes, tagged Character, Discovery, Error, Errors, flickr, Life, Love, Man, Mankind, Photography, Quotations, Quotes on January 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Photograph by laredecouverte
“A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.”
- James Joyce
It Tolls For Thee
Posted in Life, Poetry, Quotations, Quotes, Society, Verse, tagged Bell, Bells, Brotherhood, Continent, Death, Diminish, Europe, Humanity, island, John Donne, Life, Man, Mankind, Poetry, Quotations, Quotes, Sea, Society, Tolls, Verse on January 7, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Photograph by MarceloRuiz
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own [...]
"The Oxford History of Islam" by John L. Esposito (Editor)
"O wave! Plunge headlong into the dark seas,
And change thyself with many a twist and turn;
Thou wast not born for tile solace of the shore;
Arise, untamed, and find a path for thyself."
- Allama Muhammad Iqbal