“The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.” - Norman Cousins The New What’s Going on Blog has prompted ...

“A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome.” - Matshona Dhliwayo The Maraya C...

“The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.” -  Ovid Poets and Storytellers this week invites us to find inspiratio...

“No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.” - Abdu...

“Always do what you are afraid to do.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson The New What’s Going on Blog    this week has as its theme: “Words of Fearlessn...

“An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.” - Friedrich Nietzsche Welcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join me every Tuesday and showc...

“We are proud of our ridiculousness. That's what made our Surrealism. Proud and ashamed of everything at the same time. I think that...

“Blackness remains the coat you can't take off.” - Clint Smith The New What’s Going on Blog    this week advises: “Choose one color--bla...

“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” - Maya Angelou Welcome to the ...

“The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.” - Jean Paul Poets and Storytelle...

“The world cannot live without the Arctic; it affects every living thing on Earth and acts as a virtual thermostat, reflecting sunlight and ...

“A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.” - Erma Bombeck The Poets and Storytellers blog has chosen the apt t...

“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.” - Soren Kierkegaard The New What’s Going on Blog has set as its theme this week...

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” - John F. Kennedy Welcome to the Travel Tuesday mem...

“It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one's enemies with courage.” - Pericles The New What’s Going on ...

“Nothing’s far when one wants to get there.” - Marie of Romania Sibiu , German: Hermannstadt , Hungarian: Nagyszeben , Latin: Cibinium , is ...

“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.” - Dwight D. Eisenh...

“Mauritius was made first and then heaven, heaven being copied after Mauritius.” - Mark Twain Welcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join me ev...

“A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too l...

“We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if t...