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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine

To love beauty is to see light (Victor Hugo)

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea (Isak Dinesen)

Everything does go in a circle (Cyndi Lauper)

You can't get too much winter in the winter (Robert Frost)

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle (Walt Whitman)

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one (Aristotle)

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? (Shelley)

The best mirror is an old friend...

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry (Thomas Fuller)

We wouldn't mind the sun, dear, if it didn't set (Emily Dickinson)

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision (Joseph Joubert)

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one (Khalil Gibran)

When you have only two cent left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. (Chinese Proverb)

Courage is to stand up and speak; courage is also to sit down and listen (Winston Churchill)

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher (William Wordsworth )

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. (Leonard Cohen)

A man of wisdom delights in water (Confucius)

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away (Elvis Presley)

Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness (Sam Francis)

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. (Stanley Horowitz)

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles (Buddha)

No photography is mysterious. The mystery is your eye ( parafrasing Elizabeth Bowen)

We will burn that bridge when we come to it (Goethe)

A tree does not move unless there is wind. ( Afghan Proverb)

May I never miss a sunset because I am looking down (Sara June Parker)

Excuse me while I kiss the sky (Jimi Hendrix )

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others (Douglas Horton)

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house (Edward Hopper)

You can't photograph the darkness by flooding it with light

Dreaming is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding (John Locke)

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached (Prem Rawat)

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon (K. Adenauer)

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us (Samuel Smiles)

We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise if we have waited in the darkness

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail (Theophile Gautier )

To love beauty is to see light (Victor Hugo)

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris (Orville Wright )

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger (Buddha )

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul (Henri Matisse)

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them (Zen Quote by Alan Watts)

When my heart is heavy, the sun helps make it light (Astrid Alauda)

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain (Carl Jung)

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance (Arnold H. Glasow)

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not (Ursula K. Le Guin)

Talent is like electricity, to use it you don't have to understand it (Maya Angelou)

Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train...

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out (Rabindranath Tagore)

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet (Roger Miller)

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six (Leo Tolstoy )

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. (Abraham Lincoln)

The nearer the dawn the darker the night (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

A tree falls the way it leans (Bulgarian proverb)

eyes need light to see, minds need ideas to conceive (Napoleon Hill)

Clouds come into my life, not to carry rain, but to add color to my sunset sky (Tagore)

Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling (James E. Starrs)

History is like a constantly changing tree (David Irving)

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star (W. Clement Stone)

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. (Georg C. Lichtenberg )

There was never a night that could defeat sunrise (Bern Williams)

Sunlight is painting, moonlight is sculpture (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits - Happy New Year!

With warm memories, no winter can be cold

Kindness is like snow - it beautifies everything it covers

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit (Kahlil Gibran)

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you (Charlotte Whitton)

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light

I think of you in colors that don't exist

Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn...

The only way to have a friend is to be one (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

There's a bright spot in every dark cloud.

If you think it's going to rain, it will...

I came like water, and like wind I go (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam)

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age (Colin Powell )

Don't cross the bridge before you get to it...

People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile

Nothing is softer than water, yet nothing can resist it. (Lao Tzu)

“It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.”

"When you possess light within, you see it externally..."

Inside a stainless steel sugar bowl

Dusk atmosphere in the forest

Two cups of tea

Cyclist in Black and White

Reflective patterns

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn

Bad weather always looks worse through a window

Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest (chinese proverb)

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water (by Tagore)

Sunset on the beach of Vlieland (the Netherlands)

Sunset at the island of Vlieland (the Netherlands)

Seagulls in Black and Seagulls in White

Wishing you all a happy new year

Self portrait shooting christmas lights in my front garden

Christmas lights in my garden

Detail of crystal chandelier in Sultan Qaboos Mosque in Muscat (Oman)

Between summer and fall

The end of life: sun shining through a decaying leaf

Writing the diary

The dark forest II

The dark forest I

The shadow of the spider

Imploded steel as art

Reed along a Dutch canal at sun set

Water drops on a garden bench

Reflections in a forest pond

1000 dandelions

Entrance - Exit

Detail of modern art

Moving train at night

The beauty of water

Forest in late winter afternoon

The friendly face of winter

Leaf of a hosta

Water plants and reflections

Iceland; somewhere along the Kjölur highland route

One of the Gehry buildings in the Media harbour of Dusseldorf (Germany)

Broken tea glass

Stained glass window of the church of Doesburg (the Netherlands)

Moon and fast moving clouds at night

Christmas lights

Christmas lights

Sunset and stormy weather

Mist in the forest

Light on a table

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