The Laughing Nomad

If it’s yellow let it mellow.
If it’s brown, flush it down.

Dark nights gave me these dark eyes
but I shall use them to seek the light
gu cheng

“The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewirtes history it needs to, and does not even see the evidence that threatens it.” Anthony G. Greenwald

LIVE your LIFE and just be YOU, you will never regret.
Don’t forget that past is history , future is a mystery and present is a GIFT
Iranian woman photographer

“What is it like growing younger?
I can’t really say. I have always looked out of my own eyes.”
Benjamin Button

“We see things not as they are but as we are.”
John Milton, Paradise Lost

or

“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
Hamlet

or

Buddhist precepts

“I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.”
Ghandi

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.”
Paul Theroux

“All Who Wonder Are Not Lost”
Bilbao Baggins

“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.”
Mohammed

Everything always works out, though not the way you expect
Me

“freedom means nothing left to lose”
Bob Dylan

or

“your freedom ends where the others’ freedom begins.”
French saying

“Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”
Chinese Proverb

“Find Out, Who You Are”
Written on the entrance of the Temple of Delphi.

“When do you know your God is man-made?
When he hates the same people you do.”
Unknown

“We were food for the gun, and that’s
What you are when you’re soldiers,”
Motorhead
“1916″

The definition of a “gaffe”
When a politician tells the truth.

“He who isn’t busy being born is busy dyin’”
Bob Dylan

“Love is a one-way street.
Love, like respect, isn’t something you get;
It’s something you give.”
Shantaram

“Shade of walnut tree, bench, company and wine”
A friend

The luxury of having the time and sensibility to appreciate is one of life’s greatest joys.
Me

“I believe I found the missing link between animal and civilized man.
It is us.”
Konrad Lorenz, ethologist, Nobel laureate (1903-1989)

The Two Wolves
One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a
battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son,
The battle is between two ‘wolves’ inside us all.
One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow,
regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment
inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego.

“The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope,
serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence,
empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.”

The grandson thought about it for a minute
and then asked his grandfather,
“Which wolf wins?”

The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”

Canundrum to think about:

There is a famous quote from an old Italian film
called the GATTOPARDO which summed up the Italian
experience - the young nephew says to his uncle, the
Prince,  as the northern forces are taking over Sicily,
as their aristocratic past is being swept away and he
(the nephew) is leaving King and Country to join the
conquerers, he says: “In order for things to remain as
they are, everything must change”.