: ) Smile [003]

"A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy,

the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered,

and the smile that lights on the first born babe,

and assures it of a mother's love. "

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

: ) Smile [002]

“A smile happens in a flash,

but its memory can last a lifetime.”

: ) Smile [001]

" What  Sunshine  is  to  Flowers,

Smiles  are  to  Humanity. "

Random Pattern [18]

"In between goals is a thing called life,

 that has to be lived and enjoyed."

Sid Caesar

Random Pattern [17]

"Life consists not in holding good cards

but in playing those you hold well."

Josh Billings

Random Pattern [16]

"People where you live," the little prince said,

"grow five thousand roses in one garden...

yet they don't find what they're looking for..."

"They don't find it," I answered.

"And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..."

"Of course," I answered.

And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind.

You have to look with the heart."

"And when you're consoled (everyone is eventually consoled),

you'll be glad you've known me.

You'll always be my friend.

You'll feel like laughing with me.

And you'll open your windows sometimes just for the fun of it...

And your friends will be amazed to see you laughing

while you're looking up at the sky.

Then you'll tell them, 'Yes, it's the stars.

They always make me laugh!"

~The Little Prince

~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Random Pattern [15]

"One of the best things about paintings

is their silence

which prompts reflection

and random reverie. "

Mark Stevens

Random Pattern [14]

"The kind of relatedness to the world

may be noble or trivial,

but even being related to the basest kind of pattern

is immensely preferable

to being alone."

Erich Fromm

Random Pattern [13]

"Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness,

we never really experience the universe directly,

we just experience our consciousness of the universe,

our perception of it,

so right, our only universe is perception."

Alan Moore

Random Pattern [12]

"Existence is random.

Has no pattern save what we imagine

after staring at it for too long.

No meaning save what we choose to impose."

Alan Moore

Random Pattern [11]

"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience,

and our aesthetic enjoyment is

recognition of the pattern"

Alfred North Whitehead

Random Pattern [10]

"Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most."

Al Capp

Random Pattern [9]

“Life forms illogical patterns.

It is haphazard and full of beauties

which I try to catch as they fly by,

for who knows whether any of them will ever return?”

Margot Fonteyn

Random Pattern [8]

"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability.

The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."

Bruce Lee

Random Pattern [7]

"The mark of our time is its revulsion

against imposed patterns."

Marshall McLuhan

Random Pattern [6]

"Continuing to cling to the patterns you know

inhibits your ability to discover what you don't know.”

Eric Allenbaugh

Random Pattern [5]

"When patterns are broken,

new worlds emerge."

Random Pattern [4]

“Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns

which have been woven of old.

No, build from your own youthful feeling,

your own groping thought

and your own flowering perception.”

Lotte Lehmann

Random Pattern [3]

"Creativity is the ability to introduce order

into the randomness of nature. "

Eric Hoffer

Random Pattern [2]

"Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors,

woven together into patterns

that are infinitely fragile

and never directly inherited."

Margaret Mead

Random Pattern [1]

"What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized.

What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.

What we can't understand we call nonsense.

What we can't read we call gibberish.

There is no free will.

There are no variables.

There is only the inevitable."

Chuck Palahniuk

The Bear [4]

"Wake in the deepest dark of night

and hear the driving rain.

Reach out a hand

and take a paw

and go to sleep again."

The Bear [3]

“A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.”

The Bear [2]

 "Bears sleep by day.

 At night they stay awake

 to chase away bad dreams."

The Bear [1]

"In a world where everyone seems to be

larger and louder than yourself,

it is very comforting to have

a small, quiet companion."

The Buddha [12]

" Whatever doctrine and discipline

taught and made known by me

will be your teacher when I am gone. "

" Behold, O monks, this is my last advice to you.
All component things in the world are changeable.

They are not lasting.

Work hard to gain your own salvation. "

The Buddha [11]

"Because of so little nourishment, all my limbs became like some withered creepers with knotted joints; my buttocks like a buffalo's hoof; my back-bone protruding like a string of balls; my ribs like rafters of a dilapidated shed; the pupils of my eyes appeared sunk deep in their sockets as water appears shining at the bottom of a deep well; my scalp became shriveled and shrunk, as a bitter gourd cut unripe becomes shriveled and shrunk by sun and wind; . . . the skin of my belly came to be cleaving to my back-bone; when I wanted to obey the calls of nature, I fell down on my face then and there; when I stroked my limbs with my hand, hairs rotted at the roots fell away from my body."

 

He had experienced pain and tortured his own body like non others and yet have not gained Enlightenment. He recalled the meditation experience he had as a child under the rose apple tree at the ploughing ceremony. He thought that this method of mental development instead of self torture might be a way to Enlightenment. Thereon, he should lead a life that avoid extremes of self-indulgence and self-mortification — the Middle Way.

The Buddha [10]

One day Gautama Buddha saw sheep being driven to be slaughtered at a Yajna (sacrifice). He tenderly lifted a sweet little lamb on his shoulder and followed the sheep to the special enclosure where the ruler of the State was performing the Yajna. On being told that the ceremonial killing of the lamb will bring great good to the ruler and the state, Buddha said, "Of course you must admit that a man, a prince, a monk is much more valuable than a tiny trivial lamb. Kill me and win merit, a hundredfold", and advised him about the inner weaknesses and vices that are symbolized by the victims of the Yajna. Buddha argued him out of his false attachment to the paltry benefits promised for ritual correctitude. He told him that the prayer that rose from every Indian at sunrise and sunset was "Let all beings attain happiness". To kill so that you may live longer and with fuller joy is a reprehensible act, Buddha declared. You have to sacrifice, not a bleating sheep, but your own animality, the bestial lust and greed, hate and malice. Sacrifice these and you earn the heaven of unflinching peace.

The Buddha [9]

The Group Runner

The Road Runner

The Elegant Runner

The Playful Runner

The Forest Runner

The Playing-Field Runner

The Sunrise Runner

The Serene Runner

The Buddha [8]