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.