Autumnal Face

No Spring nor Summer Beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one Autumnal face.
~John Donne

Autumn Rain

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane. ~Robert Frost

Scattering

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
~Edwin Way Teale

The Winds

The winds give me
Enough fallen leaves
To make a fire

~Ryokan

Loveliest Smile

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile. ~William Cullen Bryant

Impermanence

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
~Zhuangzi

Leaves Turn

Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn. ~Elizabeth Lawrence

Leaf a Flower

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
~Albert Camus

Autumn

Autumn is my favorite season. ~Johnny Kelly

Falling Leaves

falling leaves
hide the path
so quietly

~John Bailey

Successive Autumns

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~George Eliot

Restlessness

I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible. ~Sue Grafton

October

Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter. ~Carol Bishop Hipps

Enlightenment

If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak. ~Satish Kumar

Lack of Friendship

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Ripe

A ripe melon falls by itself. ~Zimbabwean Proverb

Start With Me

I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me. ~River Phoenix

How Old?

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
~Satchel Paige

Unlearn

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. ~Gloria Steinem

Liberty or Death

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. ~Harriet Tubman

Childhood

I said I'm hungry enough to eat a horse! I didn't say nothin' about carrots! ~Dennis the Menace

Humble

Don't be so humble, you're not that great. ~Golda Meir

Perspective

When it comes to things in our own lives, they can be too close to be seen in a proper perspective. We easily get caught up in situations, carried away, eventually losing our perspective. We can be easily puffed up with pride over a trifle, or become prey to melancholy. But if we see things in perspective, we can appreciate the wonderful scenery around us. ~Shundo Aoyama

Poetry

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ~Kahlil Gibran

L'shanah tovah

Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals? ~Mahalia Jackson

A Regular Guy

I'm not a big guy and hopefully kids could look at me and see that I'm not muscular and not physically imposing, that I'm just a regular guy. So if somebody with a regular body can get into the record books, kids can look at that. That would make me happy. ~Ichiro

Choosing Evil

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. ~Jerry Garcia

Justice

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
~Mary Shelley

A Father

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. ~E.B. White

Looking

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after. ~J.R.R. Tolkien

Illustration by: Ted Nasmith

Spirit-World

I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense... ~Beatrix Potter

To See

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. ~Dorothea Lange

Doorstep

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. ~Paul Strand

Within Us

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it? ~Ernst Haas

To Be Told

The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told. ~Cindy Sherman

Critics

Any critic can have his or her own interpretation. ~Andres Serrano

Cosmic Harmony

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony. ~Ruth Bernhard

Improve the World

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ~Anne Frank

Self Respect

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. ~Jane Haddam

Understand

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. ~Emma Goldman

Change the World

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
~Margaret Mead

Kindness

The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on ~Julia Alvarez

Come Back Home

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. ~Bill Cosby

Child Labor

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time. ~Grace Abbott

Be Nice

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. ~Phyllis Diller

Build Strong Children

It is easier to build strong children, than to repair broken men. ~Frederick Douglass

Another Time

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Rabbinical Saying

Most Important

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. ~Morrie Schwartz

Btw, I will be spending the week with my 7 year old nephew, so I might not post daily. Be well....

Love is....

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. ~Toni Morrison

Love and Friendship

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox