"be true to your work, your word, and your friend." - thoreau

"oh, whatll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
oh, whatll you do now, my darling young one?
im a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin',
ill walk to the depths of the deepest black forest,
where the people are many and their hands are all empty,
where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters,
where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison,
where the executioners face is always well hidden,
where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten,
where black is the color, where none is the number,
and ill tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it,
and reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it,
then ill stand on the ocean until i start sinkin',
but ill know my song well before i start singin',
and its a hard, its a hard, its a hard, its a hard,
its a hard rains a-gonna fall"
- bob dylan

"i am so clever that sometimes i dont understand a single word of what i am saying." -oscar wilde

"may the sun
bring you new energy by day,
may the moon
softly restore you by night,
may the rain
wash away your worries,
may the breeze
blow new strength into your being.
may you walk
gently through the world and know
its beauty all the days of your life."
-apache blessing

"may you live every day of your life." -jonathan swift

"every day we do things, we are things, that have to do with peace. if we are aware of our lifestyle, our way of consuming, of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment we are alive, the present moment."
-thich nhat hanh "being peace"

"do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." -buddha

"you must not lose faith in humanity. humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." -gandhi

"no matter how slow the film, spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen." -minor white

"it is easy to be brave from a safe distance." -aesop

"people are just as happy as they make up their minds to be." -abe lincoln

"lose yourself in nature and find peace."

"ive learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." -maya angelou

"look at life with the eyes of a child" - henri matisse

"i want to shout out, shout out loud.."

"there is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." -nelson mandela

"the seeing is always more important than the photograph." -dewitt jones

"sell you cleverness and buy bewilderment." -rumi

i am absolutely adoring callaway. it is so beautiful here. i am so happy. i never want to leave.

"come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher." - william wordsworth

"to the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty and in the same field it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before and which shall never be seen again." -ralph waldo emerson

"We don't know who we are until we see what we can do." -martha grimes

"i believe in everything until it's disproved. so i believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. it all exists, even if it's in your mind. who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now? -john lennon

"i am an artist. i am here to live out loud." -emile zola

"what guides us is children's response, their joy in learning to dance, to sing, to live together. it should be a guide to the whole world." -yehudi menuhin

"there are no great things, only small things with great love. happy are those." -mother theresa

yesterday i decided to practice shooting portraits with the girl i nanny. she was awesome!

"the limitations of photography are in yourself... for what we see is only what we are." -ernst haas

"if we dont change, we dont grow. if we dont grow, we arent really living." -gail sheehy

"you must be the change you wish to see in the world." -gandhi

"a man has not seen a thing who has not felt it." -henry thoreau