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