"All people want is someone to listen."

Cape Town, South Africa

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

Venice, Italy

"Nonviolence doesn't always work - but violence never does."

Agra, India

“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.”

Chiang Mai, Thailand

"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect."

Parewadanda, Nepal

“Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.”

Delhi, India

"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."

Somewhere in Wisconsin (I think)

"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart."

Parewadanda, Nepal

"All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality."

Cape Town, South Africa

"We didn't all come over on the same ship, but we're all in the same boat now."

Suzhou, China

"If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito."

Westfield, Wisconsin

"Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine."

Paudi, Nepal

“If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.”

Lamjung, Nepal

"Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends."

Near Dublin, Ireland

"I'd rather have flowers on my table than diamonds on my neck."

Krakow, Poland

"An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth."

Chennai, India

"There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open."

Tuhure Pasal, Nepal

"Humankind cannot stand very much reality."

Cape Town, South Africa

"It's possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is, while a man with two watches is never quite sure."

Hong Kong

“People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defences, or the problems of modern society.”

Green Bay, Wisconsin 

"I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful."

Praia, Cape Verde

"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."

In the middle of the Ocean

"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."

Parewadanda, Nepal

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

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

“Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away.”

Chiang Mai, Thailand 

"There are people who have money and people who are rich."

Parewadanda, Nepal

"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life."

Victoria, Seychelles

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

Somewhere in Hungary

"I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains."

Oswiecim, Poland

"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."

Istanbul, Turkey

“Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.”

Barcelona, Spain

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

Suzhou, China

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

Lamjung, Nepal

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

Thomaston, Connecticut

“Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.”

Chennai, India

"There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view."

Florance, Italy

"Everyone smiles in the same language."

Parewadanda, Nepal

“Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.”

Bangkok, Thailand

"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."

Praia, Cape Verde

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

Winona, Minnesota

“Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.”

Cape Town, South Africa

"Life is full of beauty. Notice it."

Lamjung, Nepal

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.”

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

"You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was."

Wauwatosa, Wisconsin

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

Lamjung, Nepal

“A lot of people go through life like they are rowing a boat. They look at where they have been rather than where they are going."

Pokhara, Nepal

Blog Time

Well I've decided it's time to start a blog. 

“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.”

I love quotes. 

I feel like I always have the same problem, always so much to say but once I start typing this is what happens. So the whole blog thing could be interesting...

Yep, so it's a short first post. 
Thinking photo blog instead...that would fix that problem!