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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!
You come across an old typewriter, perhaps in a junk shop. No-one else is around. You have an opportunity to type a few words on the paper, anonymously. What will you write?
"..because nothing makes me happier
and nothing makes me sadder than you.."
Quotation from The History Of Love by Nicole Krauss
Texture from Kerstin Frank. Thank you.
Quotation by Terri Guillemets.
Paris - LACPIXEL - 2021
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Spring leaves and wildflowers were popping out everywhere we hiked.
a quotation:
"This is the most beautiful place on earth.
There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary. A houseboat in Kashmir, a view down Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, a gray gothic farmhouse two stories high at the end of a red dog road in the Allegheny Mountains, a cabin on the shore of a blue lake in spruce and fir country, a greasy alley near the Hoboken waterfront, or even,
for those of a less demanding sensibility, the world to be seen from a comfortable apartment high in the tender, velvety smog of Manhattan, Chicago, Paris, Tokyo, Rio, or Rome
--there's no limit to the human capacity for the homing sentiment."
Edward Abbey
"Desert Solitaire"
Quotation by Stanley Baldwin, 3 times British Prime Minister, speaking in 1932, although he was not PM at the time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_bomber_will_always_get_through
“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
― Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, The Teaching of Buddha
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXlh-ezKeOw
YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE – ELVIS PRESLEY
Sometimes in life we come full circle
I see a footprint of my beginning
and here I am back at the start
I see the people who tried to stop me winning
but I rise above them; and leave them far behind
I draw a line in shifting, whispering grains of sand
and something deep inside me drives me on
no looking back; I am complete; I understand
sometimes in life we cannot win them over
it's not our job; it's for a greater Hand
and He will guide me on my journey
bring me safely to the shore
where angels sing; rejoice and hold me
and I will not be frightened any more
He sees in us the pain; the human burden
He sees the weight that life and people bring
He knows how much; He knows and He is certain
He will not give us more than we can take
so that in our hearts and souls we'll always sing
and when at last our cup is brimming over
He lays his Hand upon our heads and soothes our brow
and we feel the greatest love that ever found us
and we are comforted and lighter; it is a miracle somehow
and once more we are peaceful
finding joy in simple things
as darkness; shadows and all our plights
are left behind and taken care of;
whisked away on angel's wings
and soon the lines of strain are smoothed; not furrowed
as clouds reveal the stars of wonder and ethereal light
and we begin to live at last the ever after; forget tomorrow
this moment we exist; and in this moment
I am complete; I am content right here, right now.
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«I want knowledge. Not belief. Not surmise. But knowledge. I want God to put out His hand, show His face, speak to me».
~ Antonius Block, The Seventh Seal
Quotation by John Steinbeck in "East of Eden". Lone flower by Nature. Frame by Perfect Photo Suite 9.
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
A lovely German couple sit in companionable silence within the grounds of the Summer home of Agatha Christie. The quotation is from the front of her book, Kollaps (Collapse) : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond, who identifies five factors that contribute to collapse : climate change, hostile neighbours, collapse of essential trading partners, environmental problems, and the society's response to the foregoing four factors. It was nice to see these two reading and not on iPhone's or tablets. I found it very refreshing and gives me hope for the world … I don't know why, but it just did. They had no need to be openly demonstrative. Their love was tangible. They seemed, to me, to be the epitome of something that the world is rapidly losing and I wanted to capture the essence of that. I find that, for me, I can rarely relax and be myself except in the silence of my own company or when I am in nature. For me the world is often too big; too noisy; too crowded and overwhelming. Wish that there was none of the problems covered in this lady's book. How calm she seems while reading about such chaos. I remember my father saying to never judge a book by it's cover. Perhaps she has inner turmoil, but somehow I do not think so and actually I really hope her life is every bit as beautiful as I perceived it to be and his too.
“I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said; Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
Which yet survive, stampt on these lifeless things,
The hand that mockt them and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
- “Ozymandias”, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1817)
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IkFiuIkcPI
À Toi - Joe Dassin "Alain Delon and Dalila"
We return to innocence
like children we play in the sun
we sit in companionable silence
our two hearts so close as if our life has still not yet begun
we read and play out in our heads
the story of our lives
the love that we will find
and the memories we will make will help us to survive
we may go our separate ways
or we may stay together no matter what
for now the sun is overhead and heady
makes us dizzy
drink some fizzy
orange or lemonade will keep us steady
I do not know if you are ready
but I am … take baby steps
walk with me along the sand
love is in us and beside us
I feel it so deeply but will you ever understand
it is written in the stars
I write it echoing in the sand
I reach out to touch your cheek
we are closer now; walking hand in hand
but for now we have reverted back
to the companionable silence of before
so comfortable in our own skins
we do not search for answers or look towards the open door
we do not see it closing
we do not know if time is short or long
we only know the rhythm rising in us
that beats so loudly; that gives rise to our eternal song
we dance to our own tune
sometimes we dance apart
but it does not matter because we are sure
of this mutual feeling that is mirrored deep within our hearts
we travelled far; we travelled wide
sometimes together; sometimes apart
none of this matters now
all that matters is what is here
this perfect moment; this is our time
the poets wrote of it long ago
they wrote in couplets; they wrote in rhyme
and here we are; we are the living proof
that nothing really matters except
to be within this loving moment
to live and love
to live
to love
to rise above all things
to give thanks to heaven above
we found each other
we lost each other
we refound what we had lost with ease
what is written will always come to be
as long as I have you
as long as you have me
as long as we have Faith
as long as we have each other
as long as we believe.
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— Robert A. Heinlein. (I'm not a science fiction geek, but the quote fits.)
Sprocket, with Shutter in the background, no ordinary felines themselves.
HAPPY WINDOW WEDNESDAY(S) !!
In Alsace, most of the little window shutter "cut-outs" I have seen are heart-shaped.❤😍 I was amused to run across this set of old shutters with single 'quote - unquote' cut-outs, instead of hearts.😋
Location: An old dwelliing on a backstreet in Strasbourg, Alsace FR.
In my album: Dan's Windows.
Thanks to Midnight Digital for this quotation:
"When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth."
A rather nice statue in Vienna. Been looking back through these as I failed to get anything from my recent trip to Spain at all!!!
Simon Kennedy is an Architectural Photographer based in London
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Work by the street artist Kraser
In particular follow this link:
open quotation from the sculpture "Le tre Grazie" by Antonio Canova (1812 e il 1817)
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.........I'm thinking that it should be wonderful to live in a city, town, village so full of colors... I think that each grey wall could be transformed into an awesome work of art...
This is Vallà di Riese (Veneto Region, Italy) experience....
woooooow.... I love this... the project is supported by Region Administrators ....
It is Vallà participatory urban regeneration project, born from an idea of the BocaVerta Collective to put art and beauty back at the center of our urban landscapes. The name combines the English word wall and the country where the initiative takes place in a play on words.
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COS’È THE WALLÀ. È il progetto di rigenerazione urbana partecipata di Vallà, nato da un’idea del Collettivo BocaVerta per rimettere al centro dei nostri paesaggi urbani l’arte e la bellezza. Il nome unisce in un gioco di parole il termine inglese wall (muro) e il paese in cui ha luogo l’iniziativa.
In concreto, The Wallà si propone di trasformare i muri di edifici pubblici e privati in “tele” per un museo permanente a cielo aperto, composto da opere di street art che rappresenteranno un potente mezzo per sensibilizzare, raccontare, accogliere, riqualificare. A oggi sono più di 10 gli edifici individuati per gli interventi artistici, ma l’iniziativa è in continua espansione.
“Questo progetto”, spiega il Collettivo BocaVerta, “nasce dalla percezione condivisa di degrado lungo l’arteria che attraversa da nord a sud il nostro paese, quella Strada provinciale 667 che è croce e delizia del paese stesso, veicolo di sviluppo, ma anche di traffico e inquinamento. Ripartire dalla bellezza, per noi, significa riprendere possesso dei luoghi che ci sono familiari e coinvolgere attivamente i cittadini nella ricerca di un vivere comune che sia rispettoso di sé e degli altri”.
www.trevisotoday.it/.../riese-walla-street-art...
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“It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera…
they are made with the eye, heart and head.”
[Henry Cartier Bresson]
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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
Quotation from Shrek by Donkey! I liked the tiny flecks of colour and patterning of the Sedimentary layers.
Boulders and Rockpools on the beach at Mains of Slains Farm, the North Sea Coast Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
153/366 pictures in 2020
Our Daily Challenge -Thoreau quotations
43/100x floral macros in 2020
“As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done."
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"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
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.”
"I don't want to imagine the time
when I have to stop playing."
~ Fernando Torres ~
I loved this quotation, not realizing it was referring to
Fernando Torres, a former Spanish professional football player,
now retired! So I wonder what he's imagining now!
Love grows when we work at it.
Love overlooks a multitudes of faults.
Love will bring us together.
Love finds away to get together.
Love will keep us together.
A tabletop creation.
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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I come across another funny Quotation on FaceBook and wanted to share this with you all. Have a fantastic day, everyone!
Bulbs with quotation.
(No tengo ningún miedo a ganar la Primitiva, y si es con bote, menos. Mi familia y amigos se iban a enterar, a pesar de Hacienda).
'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
"Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine". Alan Turing
Movie: The Imitation Game
(I used a photo of a calculator keypad, taken today, to produce all the numbers shown. This was processed with one of my own textures from a photo of the sea as I wanted a dreamy effect.)
ODC "movie quote"
If You Remember the ’60s, You Really Weren’t There
Robin Williams? Charlie Fleischer? Paul Krassner? Paul Kantner? Grace Slick?
Dear Quotation Investigator: I lived through the 1960s, but the only thing I remember about it is the following quotation:
If you can remember the 1960s, you weren’t really there.
Does anyone recall who said this?
Quote Investigator: Yes, many people think they remember who said this. The problem is they disagree: Paul Kantner, Robin Williams, Paul Krassner, Pete Townshend, Grace Slick, Timothy Leary, and many others have been credited with the saying. Of course, no one who was there really remembers.
The earliest citation currently known by QI for this expression was found by the outstanding researcher Stephen Goranson.
The cite is a two-line article in the Comedy column of the Los Angeles Times in 1982:
EXIT LINE: Comedian Charlie Fleischer observes: “If you remember the ’60s, you really weren’t there.”
Apparently it took all of the 1970s to recover from the 1960s and create the quip. Until further citations are located, Charles Fleischer gets the credit.