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The Week…In the park with Emily Bronte

21 July, 2010 от · No comments

Photo: in Honest people don’t hide their deeds. Photo: in A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

The Week…Red and Black with Stendhal

13 July, 2010 от · 2 comments

Photo: steews4 Only great minds can afford a simple style. Photo: wtlphotos Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it. Photo: tambako Beauty is the promise of happiness.

The Week…Deserts with Paulo Coelho

5 July, 2010 от · No comments

Photo: h-k-d Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. Photo: stevephillips Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

The Week…Ikebana with Ayumi Hamasaki

28 June, 2010 от · 2 comments

Photo: grumblindal I don’t have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream. Photo: 10392797@N03 I don’t think you should meet the people you most admire. I don’t want reality to interfere with my image.

The Week…Windmills with Paul Valerie

20 June, 2010 от · No comments

Photo: powi A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. Photo: soapbeard

The Week…Clouds with Henry Wheeler Shaw

13 June, 2010 от · 7 comments

Photo: shekgraham A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

The Week…Green with Terry Pratchett

1 June, 2010 от · 1 comment

Photo: wtlphotos It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life. Photo: venteco Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

The Week…New York with Ronald Reagan

20 May, 2010 от · 1 comment

Photo: kwl There are no easy answers’ but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. Photo: 8338840@N06 Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. Photo: shankbone There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the […]

The Week… Water drops with Jane Austen

10 May, 2010 от · 3 comments

Photo: randysonofrobert To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. Photo: canon_duo Everybody likes to go their own way – to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

The Week…Butterflies with Buddha

19 April, 2010 от · No comments

Photo: motleypixel Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten. Photo: photolibraries Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts.

The Week… Rocks with Confucius

12 April, 2010 от · No comments

Photo: bayphotographic I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Photo: jsome1 It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. Photo: darrenshilson Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.

Тhe Week… Lighthouses with Niccolo Machiavelli

6 April, 2010 от · 2 comments

Photo: bazylek Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes; but few have the gift of penetration. Photo: donaldmacleod Photo: camshafter To be feared is much safer than to be loved.

The Week… France with Gustave Flaubert

29 March, 2010 от · 4 comments

Quotes & photos selected by Mariana Velichkova Photo: Fr Antunes A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. Photo: Fr Antunes All one’s inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

The Week…Spring with Plato

22 March, 2010 от · No comments

Photo: papalars Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow Photo: anvica At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet Photo: galego No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. Photo: 9127350@N03 We can easily forgive a child who is […]

The Week… Orange with Charles Dickens

15 March, 2010 от · No comments

Photo: holia It is a far, far better thing that I do, than anything I have ever done; it is a far, far, better rest that I go to, than I have ever known. Photo: doug88888 One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind. Photo: nattu

The Week – Fields with Walt Disney

1 March, 2010 от · No comments

Photo: willi *** All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. *** Photo: shadowgate *** Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation. *** Photo: twoblueday

The Week – Islands with Henry Kissinger

16 February, 2010 от · No comments

Photo: ntlam *** The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. *** Photo: mrlins *** The history of things that didn’t happen has never been written. *** Photo: g-hat

The Week – Water reflections with Success

1 February, 2010 от · 1 comment

Photo: Richard0 *** Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll meet ’em on your way down. Wilson Mizner *** Photo: Richard0 *** I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. Herbert Bayard Swope *** Photo: […]

The Week – Rain with Robin Sharma

10 January, 2010 от · No comments

Photo: rhettmaxwell *** Every single person on the planet is a genius. *** Photo: suika2009 *** Success is all about consistency around the fundamentals. ***

The Week – Birds with Success

3 January, 2010 от · No comments

Photo: mikebaird *** “Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.” Albert Einstein . *** Photo: mikebaird *** “It is possible to fail in many ways… while to succeed is possible only in one way.” Aristotle . ***