To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

George Robert Gissing

How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal, No

We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.

Blaise Pascal

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Eleanor Roosevelt

People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

Khaled Hosseini

We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.

Paulo Coelho

If you follow only one rule, let it be this one: Be yourself. The really strong boy-girl relationships are based on what people really are, not on what they pretend to be.

Source Unknown

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

Woodrow Wilson

With the breast-feeding, I really love the bonding. Real life is more important to me.

Debi Mazar

Empowerment is the ability to refine, improve, and enhance your life without co-dependency.

Steve Maraboli

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Don Marquis

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

J.K. Rowling