Photographs

We must.

2010-12-09T07:00:00.000+08:00

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

-=Marian Wright Edelma=-

Past

2010-12-08T07:00:00.000+08:00

Forgiveness is the release of all hope for a better past.

-=Alexa Young=-

Don't. Believe.

2010-12-07T19:00:00.001+08:00

Don`t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you`ll see the way to fly.

-=Richard Bach=-

What we are...

2010-12-06T07:00:00.001+08:00

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

-=Eleanor Powell=-

Mournful rustling

2010-12-05T07:00:00.001+08:00

The leaves of memory seemed to make
A mournful rustling in the dark.

-=Henry Wadsworth Longfellow=-

Memory

2010-12-04T07:00:00.001+08:00

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.

-=The Wonder Years=-

An important fact

2010-12-03T07:00:00.001+08:00

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

-=Buckminster Fuller=-

This is...

2010-12-02T07:00:00.003+08:00

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

-=Rumi=-

Rainbow

2010-12-01T07:00:00.002+08:00

Life is like a rainbow. You need both the sun and the rain to make its colors appear.

-=Anonymous=-

Another's

2010-11-30T07:00:00.001+08:00

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

-=Leo F. Buscaglia=-

With confidence

2010-11-29T07:00:00.000+08:00

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

-=Henry David Thoreau=-

The Day Ahead

2010-11-28T10:01:00.000+08:00

Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.

-=Howard Cosell=-

Perhaps

2010-11-28T00:01:00.002+08:00

Perhaps not to be is to be without your being,
without your going, that cuts noon light
like a blue flower, without your passing
later through fog and stones,
without the torch you lift in your hand
that others may not see as golden,
that perhaps no one believed blossomed
the glowing origin of the rose,
without, in the end, your being, your coming
suddenly, inspiringly, to know my life,
blaze of the rose-tree, wheat of the breeze:
and it follows that I am, because you are:
it follows from ‘you are’, that I am, and we:
and, because of love, you will, I will,
We will, come to be.

-=Pablo Neruda =-

Walking down that trail

2010-11-28T00:01:00.000+08:00

There's a long, long trail a-winding
Into the land of my dreams,
Where the nightingales are singing
And a white moon beams.
There's a long, long night of waiting
Until my dreams all come true;
Till the day when I'll be going down
That long, long trail with you.

-=Stoddard King=-

I turn to you

2010-11-27T19:00:00.000+08:00

There are thoughts which are prayers.
There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body,
the soul is on its knees.

-=Victor Hugo=-

That's life

2010-11-27T07:00:00.000+08:00

That's death and life, you see. We all shine on. You just have to release your hearts, alert your senses, and pay attention. A leaf, a star, a song, a laugh. Notice all the little things, because somebody is reaching out to you. Qualcuno ti ama. Somebody loves you.

-=Ben Sherwood=-

Teardrops

2010-11-26T14:59:00.001+08:00

Tears of joy are like summer raindrops pierced by sunbeams

-=Hosea Ballou=-

Fenced

2010-11-26T07:00:00.004+08:00

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out

-=JRR Tolkien=-

Dust

2010-11-25T19:39:00.000+08:00

When I went to look at what had long been hidden,
A jewel laid long ago in a secret place,
I trembled, for I thought to see its dark deep fire—
But only a pinch of dust blew up in my face.

I almost gave my life long ago for a thing
That has gone to dust now, stinging my eyes—
It is strange how often a heart must be broken
Before the years can make it wise.

-=Sarah Teasdale=-

A dream within a dream

2010-11-25T07:00:00.000+08:00

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

-=Douglas Adams=-

I wander

2010-11-24T07:00:00.000+08:00

Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate,
And though we pass them by today,
Tomorrow we may come this way
And take the hidden paths that run
Towards the Moon or to the Sun.

-=JRR Tolkien=-

At least once.

2010-11-23T20:25:00.001+08:00

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

-=Friedrich Nietzsche=-

To know, to feel, to live

2010-11-23T07:00:00.000+08:00

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers, and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

-=Goethe=-

Together

2010-11-22T19:15:00.000+08:00

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long.
If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time.

-=Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)=-

Even when HE is silent

2010-11-22T07:00:00.000+08:00

Though I can't see my stories ending
That doesn't mean the dark night has no end
It's only here that I find faith
And learn to trust the one who writes my days
So I'll stand in the pain and silence
And I'll speak to the dark night

I believe in the sun even when it's not shining
I believe in love even when I don't feel it
And I believe in God even when He is silent
And I, I believe
No dark can consume Light
No death greater than this life
We are not forgotten
Hope is found when we say
Even when He is silent

-=Barlow Girl=-

You too.

2010-11-21T19:00:00.003+08:00

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another:
"What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.

-=C.S. Lewis=-

Somewhere

2010-11-21T07:00:00.004+08:00

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.

-=Anne Frank=-

And it was good

2010-11-20T07:00:00.001+08:00

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

-=Genesis, The Bible=-

If only for a moment

2010-11-19T07:00:00.002+08:00

For a long time I searched for the black stone that cleanses the soul of death. When I say a long time, I think of a bottomless pit, a tunnel dug with my fingers, my teeth, in the stubborn hope of glimpsing, if only for a minute, one infinitely lingering minute, a ray of light, a spark that would imprint itself deep within my eye, that would stay protected in my entrails like a secret. There it would be, lodging in my breast and nourishing my endless nights...

-=Tahar Ben Jelloun=-

Choreographed

2010-11-18T21:50:00.003+08:00

Art is the choreography of thought and motion.

-=Ginia Davis=-

Don't

2010-11-18T07:00:00.002+08:00

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

-=Ayn Rand=-

Everyday motion

2010-11-17T21:49:00.003+08:00

People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment... when one thing changes into something else.

-=Andre Kertesz=-

Try to be.

2010-11-17T17:47:00.003+08:00

You can come out of the furnace of trouble two ways: if you let if consume you, you come out a cinder; but there is a kind of metal which refuses to be consumed, and comes out a star.

-=Jean Church==-

Sunsets

2010-11-16T21:47:00.002+08:00

Breath, movement, intent, hesitation, stillness as a posture are all manifesting both the flow of the movement and the result of that flow.

-=Cherie Hanson=-

Normal day

2010-11-16T07:00:00.002+08:00

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return.

-=Mary Jean Iron=-

A falling star

2010-11-15T21:46:00.002+08:00

Come back to me...

2010-11-15T07:00:00.001+08:00

The world has changed.
I see it in the water.
I feel it in the Earth.
I smell it in the air.
Much that once was is lost,
For none now live who remember it.

-=J.R.R. Tolkien=-

Only 1

2010-11-14T21:45:00.001+08:00

At this moment, there are 6 billion, 4 hundred, 71 million, 8 hundred, 18 thousand, 6 hundred, 71 people in the world. Some are running scared.. some are coming home. Some tell lies to make it through the day.. others are just now facing the truth. Some are evil men at war with good, and some are good.. struggling with evil. 6 billion people in the world, 6 billion souls -- and sometimes.. all you need is 1

-=One Tree Hill=-

Borrowed

2010-11-14T07:00:00.002+08:00

He walked out into the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of an intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.

-=Cormac McCarthy=-

Memory

2010-11-13T21:42:00.003+08:00

The leaves of memory seemed to make
A mournful rustling in the dark.

-=Henry Wadsworth Longfellow=-

Look, listen

2010-11-13T07:00:00.002+08:00

Look, it cannot be seen - it is beyond form. Listen, it cannot be heard - it is beyond sound. Grasp, it cannot be held - it is intangible. These three are indefinable, they are one.
From above it is not bright; From below it is not dark: Unbroken thread beyond description. It returns to nothingness. Form of the formless, Image of the imageless, It is called indefinable and beyond imagination.
Stand before it - there is no beginning. Follow it and there is no end. Stay with the Tao, Move with the present.
Knowing the ancient beginning is the essence of Tao.

-=Lao Tzu=-

All that I can

2010-11-12T21:30:00.001+08:00

Have fun, be crazy, be wierd

2010-11-12T07:00:00.003+08:00

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

-=Anthony Robbins=-

Just the two of us

2010-11-11T21:38:00.004+08:00

It seems we have no control what so ever over our own hearts. Condition can change without warning. Romance can make the heart pound just like panic can. And panic can make it stop cold in your chest. It's no wonder doctors spend so much time to keep the heart stable, to keep it slow, steady, regular to stop the heart from pounding out of your chest from the dread of something terrible or the anticipation or something else entirely.

-=Meredith Grey=-

There's nothing worth more

2010-11-11T07:00:00.002+08:00

Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.

-=Irish Blessing=-

Searching

2010-11-10T21:28:00.006+08:00

In search of my life and my one true love
I prayed to Almighty God above
And His compassionate voice directed me to
The many things I was destined to do

And in my private reverie
I read of lands across the sea
I imagined enchanting hallowed hill
Grows beyond my window sil

-=Little Mermaid=-

We speak in the language of laughter

2010-11-10T07:00:00.001+08:00

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

-=Kahlil Gibran=-

Reflections

2010-11-09T21:27:00.003+08:00

Look to where the sun shines

2010-11-09T07:00:00.002+08:00

When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best...
And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life.

-=Monty Python=-

Baguio at Dawn

2010-11-08T21:22:00.001+08:00

No

2010-11-08T07:00:00.002+08:00

I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or
catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.

-=Dawna Markova=-

So somewhere in my youth or childhood...

2010-11-07T21:21:00.008+08:00

Nothing comes from nothing
Nothing ever could
So somewhere in my youth or childhood
I must have done something good

-=Julie Andrews=-

I choose

2010-11-07T07:00:00.002+08:00

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

-=Groucho Marx=-

A cup in hand

2010-11-06T21:19:00.002+08:00

It runs through my circulatory system, it is the drug that keeps me going... caffeine. I've learned to drink coffee when I entered medicine. Although not as addicted to it as I was before, it still gives me the extra "oomph" to keep my day or mood going. I started to be addicted in those days where the early morning cramming mattered so much that I'd stay awake till 3 or 4 in the morning and sleep for just one hour. Waking up meant having 2 sachets of coffee in just one cup then zooming off to the college to read more, else I'd sleep through the day. It was the booster when I'd need to stay up for the whole 36 hours on duty days and type reports on breaks. it's the drug that I'd try to avoid when I assisted during ORs as my hand would shake so much. After graduation, I thought that I'd finally withdraw from caffeine... I became more addicted when I studied for the boards. The cure for caffeine... I wanted to take better photos...

" C:\COFFEE.POT missing (A)bort (R)etry (F)all asleep?"

-=ANONYMOUS=-

Unquenched

2010-11-06T17:54:00.003+08:00

Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave.
It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.
Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away. If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned.

-=Song of Solomon, The Bible=-

It grows

2010-11-06T15:03:00.001+08:00

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

-=JRR Tolkien=-

Marina

2010-11-05T21:18:00.002+08:00

Abi

2010-11-05T15:37:00.002+08:00

Care

2010-11-05T09:16:00.004+08:00

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

-=Mother Teresa=-

Art for the Heart

2010-11-05T04:14:00.003+08:00

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

-=Tracy Chapman=-

Helping Hands

2010-11-04T23:11:00.003+08:00

Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.

-=Norman B. Rice=-

You Alone

2010-11-04T20:57:00.003+08:00

And the morning shall greet us with a glow

to open the flowering of a new tune.

No one else but you can still the throbbing,

sobbing, murmuring voice within. No one.

For you alone can reach the silent stretches

of my soul.

You alone…

-=Rolando Carbonell=-