Your world vision

“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.”

- Audrey Hepburn

UNICEF EAST ASIA and PACIFIC

Colours

“The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.”

- Source Unknown

Stronger

“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly.

Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.” - Henry Miller

Now

"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses." - Henry Miller

Mist

“No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.” - Franz Schubert

Feel it

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

- John Ruskin

Spring breeze

“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.” - Tom Krause

A balance of stories

"The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

The consequence of the single story is this: It robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasizes how we are different rather than how we are similar." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Starry starry night

“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” - Vincent van Gogh

Here today

"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." - Mary Jean Iron

Beyond

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” - Andre Gide

Sweet is the melody

"Life is a flower of which love is the honey." - Victor Hugo

Found along the way

“Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.” - Marcel Proust

Dawn

"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not."

- Kurt Cobain

Voices in the rain

“Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.” - Karen Ravn

Its in the air

"A good snapshot stops a moment from running away." - Eudora Welty

Eclipse

"Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice."

- William James

“Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles.”

- Og Mandino

Feel the love

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

- Mother teresa

United Nations World Food Programme

Failure

“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” - James Cameron

The dance you choose

“If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the ones who are often closest to you. If you choose a path that you yourself want to take, then you're going to be much kinder to the people in your life.”

- Sarah McLachlan

We are our own worst enemy

Oh, the last ten years, it's been quite trip
Over thirty-six-hundred spins around without a cosmic slip
But within the realm of our atmosphere
We're 'bout as out of whack as we've ever been in a million years
We watched the Y2K scare in a panic
And we watched as time proved Nostrodamus wrong
And we watched as Mother Nature shook the planet
And cellular replaced the telephone
We lost Charlie Brown, Ray Charles an' Johnny Cash
We even lost Superman, mhm.

Well, the last ten years, look at the hills we've climbed
The best golfer's black, the best rapper's white an' it's about damn time
But we best beware, there's a brand new fight, you see
And I hate to say we might be our own worst enemy
We watched Oklahoma sifting through the damage
And we watched a US President get caught
We watched shareholders watch their savings vanish
We all cried when we watched those towers fall
We lost Minnie Pearl, Ron Reagan and Sam I Am
We even lost Superman, mhm.

Expensive gas and free downloads
The dot-com boom, and reality shows
What's gonna happen next is anybody's guess
Satellite radio and hybrid cars
Hand-held computers and a trip to Mars
It's all become a part of who we are
In the last ten years.

In the last ten years
We lost George Harrison, John Paul and June Carter-Cash
Hell, we even lost Superman
Gonna miss you, Chris...

The last ten years - Kenny Rogers

Once in every life

"I'm scared of what I saw, I'm scared of what I did, of who I am, and most of all, I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I'm with you!" - Dirty Dancing

Nocturne

"Most people go to their graves with their music still inside them." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Moonrise

“Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.”

– John Lennon

Sunrise

“Each human life is like a new symphony heard for the first time. It can't be understood or fully appreciated until after the final cadence.” - Source Unknown

True strength

“Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.” - Source Unknown

True Colours

“Love is space and time measured by the heart.” - Marcel Proust

Cheese

“Happiness is like perfume: You can't give it away without getting a little on yourself.” - Source unknown

Memory

“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.” - Marcel Proust

Splash

“Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress.

The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance." - Og Mandino

Live life

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars." - Og Mandino

Around

“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” - Tom Bodett

Reflection

"Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself." - Nathaniel Branden

Sense of Security

I want a little something more
Don't want the middle or the one before
I don't desire a complicated past
I want a love that will last

Say that you love
Say im the one
Don't kiss and hug me and then try to run
I don't do drama
My tears don't fall fast
I want a love that will last

I don't want a just a memory
Gives me forever
Don't even think about saying good-bye
Cuz i want just one love to be enough
And remain in my heart till i die

So call me romantic
Oh i guess that must be so
Theres something more that you oughta know
I'll never leave you
So don't even ask
I want a love that will last

Forever
I want a love that will last
I want a love that will last

So theres little more that i need
I wanna share all the air you breathe
I'm not the kinda girl to complicate the past
I want a love that will last

Forever
I want a love the love that last
Always
I just want a love that will last
Want a love that will last

A love that will last - Renee Olstead

The love

"Memories last, even if contact is lost." - Source Unknown

But this life's not for you

"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving." - Ami Carmichael

Impact

"I discovered some time ago that being in the struggle for freedom, to fight against injustice or to end poverty is not a part time job, nor can it be treated as a hobby."

- Larry King

C'est la vie

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else." Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is it

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A secret for me to hold

You're beautiful so silently

It lies beneath a shade of blue

It struck me so violently

When I looked at you

But others pass, they never pause

To feel that magic in your hand

To me you're like a wild rose

They never understand why

I cried for you

When the sky cried for you

And when you went I became a hopeless drifter

But this life was not for you

Though I learned from you

That beauty need only be a whisper

I'll cross the sea for a different world

With your treasure, a secret for me to hold

In many years they may forget

This love of ours or that we met

They may not know

How much you meant to me

Without you now I see

How fragile the world can be

And I know you've gone away

But in my heart you'll always stay

I cried for you - Katie Melua

Make a wish

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” - Larry Elder

Journey

"We are not the same person this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy change if we, changing, continue to love a changed person." - W. Somerset Maugham

Belief

"Self-contempt never inspires lasting change." - Jane R. Hirschmann and Carol H. Munter

Open it up

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Motion

“Doubt can only be removed by action.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson