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Tell me what you know :-)
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
water lily, sarah p duk gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
I kicked candy and now seem to be stuck with quotations, which are attacking my brain instead of my teeth :-)
Robert Byrne, "Sources, References, and Notes," The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, 1984
HGGT! HBW!
zinnia, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
Taken for Caturday theme quotations. The quote is: When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day. Lynda Resnick
Perdonatemi, ma -come si sa- la carne è debole e l'ego, qualche volta- prende il sopravvento!
[Foto di Paolo Mezzetti]
Forgive me ... but the flesh is weak and the ego -sometimes- takes over!
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBZaLPEhq04
UN'EMOZIONE PER SEMPRE – EROS RAMAZZOTTI (An Emotion (That Lasts) Forever)
UNEQUAL MEASURES OF LOVE
Though I love you I cannot stay
there is so much I want to do
please know it is better this way
for this is all that I can promise you
I will keep your love in my heart forever
the fire from our golden hour will keep me warm
on a cold Winter's night when the snow falls down like melting stars
I will remember you gently and recall your soft tears
I could never have made you happy
I pray that you see it this way now
I have given all I had to give you
and I would have fallen down in the innocence of your eyes
I couldn't bear to see you hurt
so it's better to have ended it this soon
better you think of me kindly than to think me a fool
please don't wait for me in the darkness
you are so pure and born of the light
your presence is precious and deserves only the best
but I know myself and know that it must be with somebody else
in my memory you are still laughing
with your smiling Irish eyes
dancing until the new dawn has broken
through the parting of the sombre night skies
the dew on the lawn sparkles and welcomes
the first day of the rest of your life
and if in the distance you can still hear the thunder
that carries it's power to you
let it lift up your heart and embrace all your sadness
let the sun dry your tears along with the dew
tilt your head toward the sky and sing a sweet song
embrace the freedom life has given to you
don't ever close your heart and mind because of me
you are worth a million of me; from here to infinity and more
I will always love you in my own special way
but put the memory of me away within a closed drawer
lock it and throw away the key
but keep your heart open; your one special love is still yet to come
forgive me my special friend; it could never be me
you deserve someone to love you equally
unequal measures of love will never do for you or for me.
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Quotation by John Steinbeck in "East of Eden". Lone flower by Nature. Frame by Perfect Photo Suite 9.
“Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves.
They flickered out saying:
"It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.”
― Carl Sandburg
Smile on Saturday - Quote
Words - Our Daily Challenge
This quotation comes from the book New Orleans: Life in an Epic City, edited by Mary Fitzpatrick
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The face of the Olympian Hermes. Just a tiny part of the whole statue. The other parts, represented by Fujifilm boxes, you have to visualise yourself or, since his image is scattered over the world-wide web, you can look it up. Here, I am offering just a visual quotation. It refers to something larger and, at the end of the day, to a long narrative which, in itself, is invisible.
Fujifilm X-Pro1 plus Helios 44M-7 (wide-open).
Quotation from, 'On seeing the graves of the forty-seven rônin at Sengakuji Temple' Anon.
Better viewed large
"That swimming, sloping, elusive something about the dark-bluish tint of the iris which seemed still to retain the shadows it had absorbed of ancient, fabulous forests where there were more birds than tigers and more fruit than thorns, and where, in some dappled depth, man's mind had been born."
Vladimir Nabokov
There is something wonderful about finding the perfect quotation to accompany a favorite image.
“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” - 469 BCE. Socrates.
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A quotation from Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821) - who probably knew a thing or two about courage.
Texture from Cheryl Tarrant. Thank you.
When you're not being able to do much there's always technology to make you have a dialogue with your many florals, which I did yesterday. Many quotes spring to mind, but I chose this one.
"The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and harmonious tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs to him" ~ August Rodin
"Camouflage is a game we all like to play,
but our secrets are as surely revealed
by what we want to seem to be
as by what we want to conceal."
~ Russell Lynes ~
Interesting, I had no idea who was famous for this quotation until
I looked up Russell Lynes in Wikipedia and discovered
he was "an American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine."
You learn something new every day!
"If there ever comes a day
Where we can't be together,
Keep me in your heart.
I'll stay there forever." -- Winnie the Pooh
For Poetography group: Some topics speak to me more than others and this week is a good example. Our word is leaf, or leaves.
They started cutting down the forest behind our house yesterday to build homes. I hoped this wouldn't happen too soon even though we were told to anticipate it. It's still tough.
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I LOVE QUOTATIONS!
I LOVE the way other people reinforce my thoughts about life.
I LOVE when my photos connect with these thoughts.
Here is a smorgasbord of fun thoughts on DIRECTION ~
“I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.” ~ Anna Louise Strong ~
BUT . . .
“You can't row a boat in two directions at the same time.” ~ anon ~
HOWEVER, Goethe says:
“I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”
SO REMEMBER TO:
“Keep your head and your heart in the right direction and you'll never have to worry about your feet.”
with all of this being said, I still love the philosophical thoughts of Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Petite Prince) ~
“A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth. Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
Over cooked but I liked it ! better bigger on black.
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"Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth."
— George Orwell ("1984")
...posted, the morning after the presidential election, upon pondering the horrors to be inflicted upon the United States of America in the months to come.
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'and i was speechless...'
my day consists of floral skirts and quotation marks.
outtakes in comments!
all sooc of course (:
"The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on."
~~ Carl Sandburg
"I just feel happy to be in America, like I said, it's the most beautiful country in the world." Ahmed Ali
(See also "America the Beautiful" by Katharine Lee Bates. The three word title is used by many as a simple "stand-alone" quotation when referring to the nation's natural beauty and to the rights granted under the Constitution and Bill of Rights)
Mother Nature has the US in her grasp. I hope you are all warm and safe as this continues to pass through our lives.
Quotations from Augustine of Hippo, asking for God's enlightenment. The second quote refers to:
James 1:16 Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow. (World English Bible, public domain.)
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