The Harbor of an Embrace
We know that the world is beautiful. Because we love each other
Yiannis Ritsos The excerpt
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The Geometry of Survival
Without consideration, without pity, without shame, they have built big and high walls around me.
C.
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The Still Point
At the still point of the turning world... there the dance is
T.S. Eliot,"Four Quartets"
specifically the first
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The Sharing of Life
Where there is love there is life
Mahatma Gandhi
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The Language of Love
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves
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Where the mind travels
To go, they say, just like that, suddenly to where our mind travels...
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The Wheel of Life
Stone, iron, steel do not endure. Man endures
Nikos Kazantzakis From his autobiographical novel Report to
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The Silent Art of Listening
Rare are the people who know how to listen, and I have met very
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Journey into the Mist
In an exotic port, on a misty night, I will remember you and weep
Nikos Kavvadias
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The Gaze of Life
All life is a mystery; and the smallest moment, the very second, is a door
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Wings in the Brine
The seagull is the white signature of the sea upon the blue of the sky.
Odysseus
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The City's Stare
You have your brushes, you have your colors, paint paradise and walk right in
Nikos Kazantzakis, From
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Sky Messengers
The birds perch on the telephone wires and read the news passing through beneath their feet.
Yiannis Ritsos
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The Promise of Dawn
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise again
Victor Hugo (1802–1885). Les Misérables
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Second to None
Because people, my companion, live for what they expect. And if we didn't have each other,
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Hope in the Water
The sea is our life, the sea is our homeland; and within it, our soul
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The Sanctuary of Light
When I found the book, I found the light. I held it in my hands
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Visitor from the Unknown
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
William
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Street Melody
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life
Berthold Auerbach, "Edelweiss" (1861)
From his novel "Edelweiss"
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The Flow of Life
Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through
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Together on the Road Ahead
What matters is not where you are going, but who you go with.
Menis Koumandareas,
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All the World’s a Stage
“All the world’s a stage,And all the men and women merely players;They have their
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Dancing Together at Christmas
There were dances, and games,and blind-man’s buff, and forfeits,and more dances,and cake, and plenty of
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The First Light
We owe it to those who came,who passed, who will come, who will pass;the unborn and
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The Light That Persists
Through the night, under the rain, the lights do not go out; they remind us
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The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And I took the one less traveled by.
Robert Frost,
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If Only the World Changed
And this time, he says…instead of time changing,let the world change. Giorgos Potamitis
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Return
Return often and take me,beloved sensation, return and take me—when the memory of the body awakens,and an old
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Christmas: When the Heart Spreads Its Wings
Christmas is the only time of year when people open their shut-up
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The Joy of Christmas
Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.
Charles M. Schulz, A Charlie Brown Christmas,
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