Posted in Life, Quotes, Society, tagged Believe, Believing, Disbelieving, Faithful, Happiness, Infidelity, Man, Mentally, quote, Tom Paine on June 18, 2008 | No Comments »
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
Posted in Books, Fiction, Passages, Quotes, tagged Beautiful, Bernhard Schlink, Conscious, Dark truths, Forever, Gall, Happiness, Happy, Hindsight, Impossible, memory, pain, Passage, quote, Real, Revealed, Shatter, The Reader, True, Truths, Unconscious, Unhappily, Unhappy on May 19, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Photograph by Jeff Rinehart
“Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn to gall when our partner is revealed to have had a lover all those years? Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we [...]
Posted in Books, Fiction, Life, Passages, Prose, Quotes, Verse, tagged quote, Life, Nothing, Book, Silk, Alessandro Baricco, Nothing more, Side, Never, Vintage International on May 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Photograph by Lumase
“Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say.”
He said.
“Nothing more, never.”
- Alessandro Baricco (Silk p. 52)
Posted in Life, Quotations, Quotes, tagged quote, night, Men, Dream, day dreamer, equalyy, minds, wake, vanity, dreamers, dangerous, open eyes, possible, Thomas Edward Lawrence on April 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Photograph by carf
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
-Thomas Edward Lawrence
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)
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
Posted in Culture, Life, Photography, Politics, Quotations, Quotes, Society, tagged quote, Mind, Quotations, Human, Photography, Politics, Revolution, Revolutions, Writer, Henrik Ibsen, People, Special, Externals, Tinkering, Human Mind, Flicky 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
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
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.”
- [...]
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)
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)
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 )
Posted in Quotations, tagged flickr, Heart, Key, Magic, Maria Von Trapp, Music, photograph, Quotation, quote on December 11, 2007 | No Comments »
“Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.”
- Maria Von Trapp
Enlightenment
Originally posted by abhinavt’s
Posted in Life, Quotations, tagged Emily Bronte, flickr, guide, nature, photograph, quotation walk, quote on December 10, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Photograph by Panache
“I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.”
- Emily Bronte
Posted in Photography, Quotations, tagged Beauty, flickr, Flower, Image, Petals, photograph, Quotation, quote, Rabindranath Tagore on November 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Photographed by ProSikhMedia
“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”
- Rabindranath Tagore
Posted in Life, Quotations, tagged chains, flickr, free, freedom, Nelson Mandela, photograph, Quotation, quote, respect on September 21, 2007 | No Comments »
“To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
- Nelson Mandela
Freedom
Orginally uploaded by Rhyt
"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
