m a n

photo by Kit

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. *

* by Katherine Hepburn

s o r r o w

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.*

*by Joseph Conrad

f r i e n d s h i p

Aleksandra - my best friend; streets of Granada, Spain 2006

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

m a r r i a g e

My brother Ralf and his wife on their wedding day, some years ago, Denmark

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. *

* by Friedrich Nietzsche

o p p o r t u n i t y

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. *

* by Mark Twain

r o m a n c e

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever*

* by Oscar Wilde

a s h t a n g a . y o g a

Do your practice and all is coming.*

* Pattabhi Jois

m i r a c l e

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.*

*Buddha

100%

Sunset over Ulaanbataar, July 2007.

Spend 100% of your time with those who give you life and energize you.

i m a g i n a t i o n

Taken from transmongolian train.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.*

* by Albert Einstein

s a l v a t i o n

Ying&Yang, YuenLong, Hongkong.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others *

* by Buddha

h a p p i n e s s

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.*

*by Dalai Lama

f r e e d o m

Selfportrait taken by the Bajkal Lake, July 2007

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. *

*by Aldous Huxley

l o v e

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.*

*by Thomas Merton

s e l f - l o v e

If you are not energized, inspired or pleased yourself; you will have very little to give to others. Simply try putting yourself, your time, your dreams before all else for a month and experience that you will be able to love more, be more aware and present – to the joy of all around you.
Understand and accept that you are the most important person in your life.

l i f e

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. *

* by John Lennon

f o r m e r

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.

t r a v e l

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.