TIGER, tiger, ...

...burning bright,  

In the forests of the night, 

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies

Burnt the fire of thine eyes?

On what wings dare he aspire?

What the hand dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder and what art

Could twist the sinews of thy heart?

And when thy heart began to beat,

What dread hand and what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?

In what furnace was thy brain?

What the anvil? What dread grasp

Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

(William Blake)

"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do." (Mother Teresa)

(art by Jerome Opena)

“The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.” (Peter Ustinov)

(Art by Vance Kovacs)

“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it." (Matthew 7:13)

“In a fight between you and the world, pick the world.” (Frank Zappa)

(Art by Janelle McKain)

"If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian." (Linda McCartney)

"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe." (Lao Tzu)

(Art by Mattias Snygg)

"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know." (Groucho Marx)

(art by Jeremy Jarvis)

"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience." (Paulo Coelho)

(Art by Dave Kinsey)

“O soul, be changed into little waterdrops, / And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found!” (Christopher Marlowe)

(Art by Kieran Yanner)

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. (Plutarch)

(Art by Carlos Huante)

“Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.” (William Shakespeare)

"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age." (Lucille Ball)

(Art by Sylwia Skubis)

"Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages,

but truth goes a-begging."

(Martin Luther)

(Art by Zdzislaw Beksinski)

“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” (Chinese proverb)

(Art by Vimark)

“From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.” (Friedrich Engels)

(Art by gardenofbadthings)