518th.

"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us." - Hal Borland




Photo is "New Year's Eve" - from ritterrunkel.

517th.

"...And she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could never say the magic phrase which would open her being." - Anais Nin




Photo is "Erotica..." - from sonic-orgasm.

516th.

"I do not think, if one is a writer, that one escapes it by trying to become something else. One does not become something else: one becomes nothing. And what is crucial here is that the writer, however unwillingly, always, somewhere, knows this. There is no structure he can build strong enough to keep out this self-knowledge." - James Baldwin




Photo is "Writer" - from siudajstej.

515th.

"I like not to be where I am expected to be - for it allows me to be where I please and to be left in peace there." - Andre Gide




Photo is "Unexpected" - from r3novatio.

514th.

"Things have a life of their own... it's simply a matter of waking up their souls." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez




Photo is "Soul Wake Up" - from asiy.

513th.

"It is a mystery how the heart gets free. And perhaps there is a kind of quiet courage to waiting until it does." - Julia Alvarez




Photo is "Set Me Free" - from iimadhoshiii.

512th.

"A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together." - Garrison Keillor




Photo is "Christmas" - from kiiw.

511th.

"There are no strangers on Christmas Eve." - Adele Comandini




Photo is "Strangers" - from m0thyyku.

510th.

"Teaching was letting children talk as if they had something important to say that the world had not heard and dealt with already." - Toni Morrison




Photo is "Teaching" - from george-le-meilleur.

509th.

"It is perhaps the great discomfort of those trying to silence the world to discover that we have voices sealed inside our heads, voices that with each passing day, grow even louder than the clamor of the world outside." - Edwidge Danticat




Photo is "Lost in the Unknown Voices" - from agnes-cecile

508th.

"The cold washed the colors of the earth, revealing that they were not colors but only the elements from which color was to come." - Ayn Rand




Photo is "Winter Flight" - from igorlaptev.

507th.

"Solitude is independence. It has been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve." - Herman Hesse




Photo is "Solitude" - from foureyes.

506th.

"In fact, I've often thought that there isn't any 'I' at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion." - Aleister Crowley




Photo is "Memories of Hijiri Byakuren 3" - from chinanime.

505th.

"You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too." - Anais Nin




Photo is "Daydreaming" - from georgiapeaches.

504th.

"Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish." - Herman Hesse




Photo is "Listen to Wisdom" - from benheine.

503rd.

"No woman is born in this world immune to the pleasure of being good. We are born to goodness; it is our birthright. Only sheer grit and pigheaded obstinacy make us demand the right to be bad, for we know that only by being bad can we become ourselves." - Erica Jong




Photo is "Being so Bad is so Good" - from bettiepageclub.

502nd.

"I was born poeta. The other things were chance. But if you don't do what you were born to do, it destroys you." - Julia Alvarez




Photo is "El Poeta" - from gnaime.

501st.

"You must have chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star." - Friedrich Nietzsche




Photo is "Dancing Star" - from digitalrebel-basel.

500th.

"Soul-atoms are distributed throughout the body. Sensation is due to thin films thrown off by bodies and traveling on until they touch soul-atoms. These films may still exist when the bodies from which they originally proceeded have been dissolved; this accounts for dreams." - Bertrand Russell




Photo is "Our Atoms" - from janearmons.

499th.

"That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen." - Charles Bukowski




Photo is "Alcohol and Cigarettes" - from onlyaeclipse.

498th.

"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." - Eden Philpotts




Photo is "Magical World" - from dr4kon.

497th.

"Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart, even the gods are powerless against him." - Jean-Paul Sartre




Photo is "Freedom" - from strawberry93oo.

496th.

"The body suffers more than the soul, because the soul can always find something to hang on to, a memory, a hope." - Reinaldo Arenas




Photo is "Memory of Summer" - from strany.

495th.

"Yet nothing human that is great can entirely end. It is merely transmuted." - Gore Vidal




Photo is "Right Before the Great Flood" - from pesare.

494th.

"You have to be crazy to see things so lucidly, so all at once. If you're great you can stay that way and people will believe in you, swear by you, turn the world upside down for you. But if you're only partly great, or just a nobody, then what happens to you is lost." - Henry Miller




Photo is "Lucidly" - from tamingwhy.

493rd.

"I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as an ordinary woman. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy." - Anais Nin




Photo is "Cascading Ecstasy" - from incoldmirrors.

492nd.

"To enjoy a thing is to make it your own." - Andre Gide




Photo is "Make Your Own Happiness" - from vampire-zombie.

491st.

"To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing." - Oscar Wilde




Photo is "Doubt" - from zmet.

490th.

"Maybe I'm just too young to keep good Love from going bad." - Jeff Buckley




Photo is "Love" - from kaneda99.

489th.

"You the penny that bought delight of the moon." - F. Scott Fitzgerald




Photo is "The Sun and The Moon" - from joied6.

488th.

"AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solutions found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and imagine our world fall into pieces because we refuse to share and put in the common vestiges of our civilizations." - Sarah Polley




Photo is "AIDS" - from k4szkiet.

487th.

"Great Spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein




Photo is "Dances of the Spirits" - from rabbitica.

486th.

"This is the purpose of tragedy - to tell the story of suffering and in the act of telling it, to give suffering an ultimate significance, to impart some meaning to the experience of a destruction of meaning." - Robert H. Hopcke




Photo is "Tragedy" - from x2-glory.

485th.

"The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur." - A.N. Whitehead




Photo is "Wreck" - from eselite.

484th.

"My heart rouses thinking to bring you news of something that concerns you and concerns many men. Look at what passes for the new. You will not find it there but in despised poems. It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserable every day for lack of what is found there." - William Carlos Williams




Photo is "Miserable Life" - from dirtyboyalf.

483rd.

"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing - kissing a lot. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls." - Audrey Hepburn




Photo is "Audrey Hepburn at the Lake" - from Photographer Unknown.

482nd.

"They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did." - Red Cloud




Photo is "The Trail of Tears" - from doomstache.

481st.

"Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drank I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered." - Jack Handy




Photo is "Reverse Logic" - from touffu.

480th.

"There are years that ask questions and years that answer." - Zora Neale Thurston




Photo is "Five years..." - from p0rg.

479th.

"To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom." - Andre Gide




Photo is "Freedom" - from dusteramaranth.

478th.

"Once she ceased expecting, she ceased being angry - for anger is really disappointed hope." - Erica Jong




Photo is "Tiresome Expectation" - from tommy-noker.

477th.

"If one is an individual at all it is by reason of his uniqueness." - Henry Miller




Photo is "Fatal Uniqueness" - from bohdanivanyuk.

476th.

"Sanity is compromise. Sanity is the thing that keeps one back." - Aleister Crowley




Photo is "Sanity O'Sanity" - from visualregurgitations.

475th.

"A path without a heart is never enjoyable. You have to work hard even to take it. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy; it does not make you work at liking it." - Carlos Castaneda




Photo is "The Path" - from dark-remorse.

474th.

"In the shambles of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying. Whoever's not killed for love is carrion." - Rumi




Photo is "Love" - from elizabeth-caffey.

473rd.

"The search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez




Photo is "Mr. Snail in Search of Love" - from megson

472nd.

"In every truth the opposite is equally true." - Herman Hesse




Photo is "The Opposite Side" - from bohdanivanyuk.

471st.

"And dimly she realized one of the great laws of the human soul: that when the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, which does not kill the body, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. But this is only appearance. It is really only the mechanism of the re-assumed habit." - D.H. Lawrence




Photo is "Winter as a Habit" - from evil-kitteeh.

470th.

"Anything that creates understanding in the long run makes for less violence." - Aung San Suu Kyi




Photo is "Understanding" - from 5letters.

469th.

"Being alone is basically being alone on a certain level in which other loneliness' could communicate with us if that were the case." - Julio Cortazar




Photo is "Alone" - from day-light.