Posted in Fiction, Life, Passages, Photography, Quotations, Quotes, tagged photograph, flickr, quote, Quotations, Photography, Change, World, Flow, Fiction, Ebb, Ocean, Trust, Veiled, Hand, Lead, Path, Law, World's law, Arabic, Arabic Proverb, Passage, Book, Literature, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, North and South, Classic Literature, Gaskell on March 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Photograph by dotlyc
“Trust in that veiled hand, which leads
None by the path that he would go;
And always be for change prepared,
For the world’s law is ebb and flow.
- “FROM THE ARABIC”
- Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (North and South, p.124)
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Posted in Character, Culture, Life, Photography, Quotations, Quotes, Religion, Society, tagged flickr, quote, Society, Life, Quotations, Character, Photography, Sacrifice, Self-sacrifice, realization, Culture on February 4, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Photograph by superkev
How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!
—Eric Hoffer
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Posted in Culture, Life, Photography, Politics, Quotations, Quotes, Society, tagged Externals, Flicky, Henrik Ibsen, Human, Human Mind, Mind, People, Photography, Politics, Quotations, quote, Revolution, Revolutions, Special, Tinkering, Writer on January 21, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Photograph by roC_ha
“People want only special revolutions,
in externals, in politics, and so on.
But that’s just tinkering. What really
is called for is a revolution of the
human mind…”
- Henrik Ibsen
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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
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Posted in Life, Poetry, Quotations, Quotes, Society, Verse, tagged Society, Humanity, island, Life, Poetry, Quotations, Death, Mankind, Quotes, Verse, Man, Continent, Sea, Europe, Diminish, Bell, Bells, Tolls, John Donne, Brotherhood 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 [...]
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Posted in Life, Photography, Quotes, tagged "Ralph Waldo Emerson, Action, bud, flickr, Fruit, Language, Photography, Quotations, quote, Quotes, Thought on January 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Photograph by ~ ervin ~
“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Posted in Life, Photography, Quotations, tagged Beliefs, Chuck Palahniuk, Concepts, Death, Die, Dream, fantasies, flickr, Fragile, Ideas, Imagine, Intangible, Legend, Nothing, Perfect, photograph, Poeple, Quotation, Quotations, quote, Real, Stone, Thought, Thoughts, Unreal, Wood on December 28, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Photographed by *sugar*CélineM*
“The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.”
- [...]
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Posted in Life, Photography, Quotations, tagged Change, Everyone, flickr, Leo Tolstoy, photograph, Quotation, Quotations, quote, Tolstoy, World on December 20, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Photograph by bambino333
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
- Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
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Posted in Life, Photography, Quotations, tagged Better, Character, Cicero, flickr, Obligation, photograph, Photography, Ponder, Quotation, Quotations, quote, Regulate, Traits, Wonder on December 18, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Photograph by OlliK
“Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else’s traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man’s character is, the better it fits him.”
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
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Posted in Life, Quotations, tagged flickr, guide, Life, Martin Luther King Jr, Men, Misquided, photograph, Power, Quotation, Quotations, quote, Scientific, Spiritual on December 16, 2007 | No Comments »
Photograph by ~Panache
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968 )
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"A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings" by Coleman Barks
"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
