456th.

"As do many strong people, she had found herself a victim of the tyranny of the weak." - Tom Robbins




Photo is "Tyranny of the Majority" - from e-mptycanvas.

455th.

"...And then they understood that Jose Arcadia Buendia was not as crazy as the family said, but that he was the only one who had enough lucidity to sense the truth of the fact that time also stumbled and had accidents and could therefore splinter and leave an eternalized fragment in a room." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez




Photo is "Intense Lucidity" - from PlaugedByImages.

454th.

"In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime." - Richard Bach




Photo is "A Path to Walk" - from kedralynn.

453rd.

"I feel that I cleverly am becoming altered, that i slightly am becoming something a little different, in fact myself." - E. E. Cummings




Photo is "Save Me From Myself" - from uchopo.

452nd.

"In Letters to a Young Poet, Rilke says, 'The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person's solitude.' That's what I want. For other people to love each other without having to partake in them, to possess them, to allow them to be their own inside their solitude, to protect that." - Kristen Kosmas




Photo is "They are four each other..." - from michelch.

451st.

"Keep knocking and the Joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there." - Rumi




Photo is "Joy" - from immanuel.

450th.

"[It] would have been unimaginable without that powerful sense of solidarity among widely differing groups, and without the sudden realization that it was impossible to go on waiting any longer, and that the truth had to be spoken loudly and collectively, regardless of the virtual certainty of sanctions and the uncertainty of any tangible results." - Vaclav Havel




Photo is "Solidarity" - from theparadigma.