Sebastião Salgado & Santosh Kalwar

Photo by Sebastiao Salgado, Aqua Mater 

 

Always be like water. 

Floats in the times of pain

 or dance

like waves 

along the wind

 which touches its surface.

Santosh Kalwar 

Herb Ritts & R.T. Bennet

Photo by Herb Ritts, Male nude, 1985



Accept yourself,
love yourself,
and keep moving forward.
If you want to fly,
you have to give up what weights you down.

Roy T. Bennet
The light in the heart

Robert Mapplethorpe & Cormac McCarthy

Photo by Robert Mapplethorpe, White Gaze

Scars

 have the strange power

 to remind us

 that our past

 is real.

Cormac McCarthy

Roberto Kusterle & 4 Non Blondes

Photo by Roberto Kusterle



And so I cry sometimes
When I'm lying in bed
Just to get it all out
What's in my head
And I, I am feeling a little peculiar
And so I wake in the morning
And I step outside
And I take a deep breath and I get real high
And I scream from the top of my lungs
What' s going on?

4 Non Blondes

Pavel Baňka & Robert Browning

Photo by Pavel Banka, Vertical Construction, 1985




My sun sets to rise again.

Robert Browning 

Izu Yumiko & Gyula Krudy

Photo by Izu Yumiko, Secret Garden, 2007



Let crazy life rush headlong on the highway for others;
we shall contemplate the sunflowers,
watch them sprout, blossom, fade away.
Yesterday they were still giants,
but now,
in autumn,
they are thatch on the roof.

Gyula Krudy,
Sunflowers

Fokos David & Virginia Woolf

Photo by Fokos David, Edgartown lighthouse,  Massachussets, 2012

Yes,

 she thought,

 laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, 

I have had my vision.

Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse 

Yamamoto Masao & Pablo Neruda

Photo by Yamamoto Masao, from the series Nakazora, 2001




As if you were on fire from within.
The moon
lives
 in the lining of your skin.

Pablo Neruda

Diane Arbus & C.S. Lewis

Photo by Diane Arbus, Dancing Girl





Some day
 you will be old enough
 to start reading fairy tales again.

C. S. Lewis

Hooper Chip & P. Coelho

Photo by Chip Hooper, Giant's Tooth, Tasman Sea, 2003




Life
 always waits
 for some crisis to occur
before revealing
 itself at its
most
brilliant.

Paulo Coelho
Eleven Minutes


www.chiphooper.com

Seth Miller & Jane Austen

Photo by Seth Miller, Woman with Umbrella, 2011

I could easily forgive his pride, 

if he had not 

mortified mine.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Edouard Boubat & William W. Purkey

Photo by Edouard Boubat, Shooting the movie "En souriant à l'invisible", Paris, 1998





You've gotta dance
 like there's nobody watching,
love like you'll never be hurt,
sing like there's nobody listening,
and live like it's heaven on earth.

William W. Purkey

Benoit Courti & Edward Gibbon

Photo by Benoit Courti, Serie Deep Black



The winds and waves
are
always on the side
of the ablest
navigators.

Edward Gibbon

Sergio Larrain & William Faulkner

Photo by Sergio Larrain




We must be free
 not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.

William Faulkner 

Hans Richter & Lewis Carroll

Photo by Hans Richter




I can't go back
to yesterday
because
 I was
 a different person then.

Lewis Carroll
Alice in Wonderland 

Willy Ronis & E. Hunter

Photo by Willy Ronis, Les chats



Surprise
 is the warrior's greatest weapon.

Erin Hunter
Into the wild

Robert Parkeharrison & E. E. Cummings

Photo by Robert Parkeharrison


It takes courage
to grown up
and became
who
you really are.

E. E. Cummings

Robert Doisneau & Lao Tzu

Photo by Robert Doisneau



The journey
 of a thousand miles
begins
 with a single step.

Lao Tzu

Laure Albin-Guillot & Elodie Santos

Photo by Laure Albin-Guillot, Main avec rose,1935


Printemps qui vient fleurir le temps
arrive un jour sans que l'on voit venir
Printemps qui vient comme le vent
souffler sur l'hiver et le faire partir
Printemps qui vient renaitre à nouveau
nous caresser la peau et nous faire sourire
Printemps qui vient avec la Douceur
accueillir le Soleil qu'on avait oublié
Printemps qui vient nous réchauffer
arroser les jardins, faire jaillir les fleurs
Printemps que vient nous dire Je t'aime
aufin qu'on puisse tout recommencer.

Elodie Santos
2009

Robert Parkharrison & Robert Frost

Photo by Robert Parkharrison, Da Vinci's wings (self-portrait)



In three words I can sum up
everything
I've learned about life:
it goes on.

Robert Frost