Remembering...

In the Philippines, catastrophic flash flooding triggered by Washi resulted in at least 1,268 fatalities.

Like a Flower in the Rain

A flower can't grow without rain. Too much rain and it drowns. And yet the most beautiful of the lotus flowers are the ones that grow in the deepest mud. 

― Sherrilyn Kenyon

Give Love

Christmas is around the corner, it is better if we give love on Christmas Day

Lovebug

I never thought that I'd get hit by this lovebug again.

- Jonas Brothers

Lonely Cat

Even cats grow lonely and anxious. 

- Mason Cooley 

Dead Woody

 I can't stop Andy from growing up... but I wouldn't miss it for the world. 

- Woody (Toy Story 2)

Cheshire Cat

Grinning like a Cheshire Cat

Merry Christmas 2012!

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! 

- Charles Dickens

Seaside Nature

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. 

-Henry Beston

The Island

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

- Denis Waitley

Freedom

There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them. 

― Jo Walton

Little Flowers

Many people have never learned to see the beauty of flowers, especially those that grow unnoticed. For instance, when you walk outside and look down at your feet, you may see tiny flowers nestled in the moss and clover hiding under a curled fern. Most people just step on them. I paint them. 

-Erika Just

Flowers are Angels in Disguise

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. 

-Lydia M. Child

Remembering the Streets

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

-Henry Miller

Jesus Loves the Little Children

Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

-Jesus

Green Green Grass

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things in nature have a message you understand, Rejoice, for your soul is alive.” 

-Eleanora Duse

Children are God's Little Angels

Old men can make war, but it is children who will make history.

-Ray Merritt

Beauty of a Flower

I hope some day to meet God, because I want to thank Him for the flowers.

-Robert Brault

Life like the Husk

Smile. Because your beautiful. Laugh. Because your living life to the fullest. Stand strong. Because haters cant bring you down.

Above the Waters

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. 

-Rabindranath Tagore

City at the Horizon

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

-Hunter S. Thompson

Love the Sea

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

-Khalil Gibran

The Sea

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

-William Shakespeare

The Tree Beside the Sea

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came. 

-John F. Kennedy

Child's Play

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

-Heraclitus

Leaves

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. 

John Burroughs

The Flower

The plains are decorated with my beautiful colors, and the air is scented with my fragrance.

- Khalil Gibran

By the Seashore

The kid searches for seashells by the seashore

The Moon

Time wears her not; she doth his chariot guide; Mortality below her orb is placed.

--Raleigh

Down To The Waterline

Sweet surrender on the quayside

- Dire Straits 

Glorious Day

Living, He loved me Dying; He saved me; Buried, He carried my sins far away; Rising, He justified freely forever. One day He’s coming.

Call it a Day

Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today.

- One Day [Movie]

The Tower

Rock bottom became a solid foundation upon which I built my life. 

― J.K. Rowling

Empty Pot

Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.

 ― Marlene Van Niekerk

Raindrops

Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.

 ― Mother Teresa

Bed of Roses

Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.

― Nicholas Sparks

Love is in the Air

True love means that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.

― Nicholas Sparks

Love is Unique

Beauty is finding the right fit, the natural fit. To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself ― avoid trying to be someone you're not.

-Rick Riordan

Loveless

The pleasure of love lasts but a moment,

Pain of love lasts a lifetime

-Unknown

Rose and Jack

A woman’s heart is a deep ocean of secrets. 

-Rose

Fly On The Spoon

God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why. 

-Ogden Nash

A Bend In The Road

Grown-ups always say that things are complicated.

 ― Nicholas Sparks

Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. 

Martin Luther King, Jr.