苏轼 <冬至日独游吉祥寺>

井底微陽回未回，蕭蕭寒雨濕枯荄。
何人更似蘇夫子，不是花時肯獨來。

- 蘇軾 <冬至日獨遊吉祥寺>

Glass mirror and works of art

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
- George Bernard Shaw

How things are

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung

當下

似乎我們總是很容易忽略當下的生活，忽略許多美好的時光。而當所有的時光在被辜負被浪費后，才能從記憶裡將某一段拎出，拍拍上面沉積的灰塵，感嘆它是最好的。
- 錢鍾書

Photo: taken on flight travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Chengdu in 2010.

Looking deep into nature

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein

Photo: taken at Bukit Kembara which used to be called Ampang Reservoir, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (November 2014)

刹那成永恒

夕阳无限好

Why this is so ...

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

An understanding of ourselves

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung

Sit in the shade on a fine day

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
- Jane Austen

Today

Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Be fair or foul or rain or shine
The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not Heaven itself upon the past has power,
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
-- Horace
(Poem #1365) Odes, Book 3, Verse 29: Happy the Man

Life handed you a lemon

"Life handed him a lemon,
As Life sometimes will do.
His friends looked on in pity,
Assuming he was through.
They came upon him later,
Reclining in the shade
In calm contentment, drinking
A glass of lemonade."

- Clarence Edwin Flynn
[published in “The Rotarian” in November 1940]

Look deep into nature

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein

理直气和

Photo taken at Chengdu, China in 2010

Explain it simply

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
- Albert Einstein

Somthing's lost and something's gained, in living everyday

Well something's lost and something's gained in living everyday.
(from Both Sides Now - a song by Joni Mitchell)

The difference ... trivial

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
- Albert Einstein

Add a new page with specific labelled posts to your blog

1) Go to your blog dashboard, and select Layout
2) In the Layout screen, click on 'Add a Gadget'. (You can reposition the added new gadget later.)

3) In the gadget list, select Pages

4) Then click on '+ Add link page'

5) Give your new page a Title, and then enter the Web address (url) that will list your posts with specific label.

The URL would be 'your blog address'/search/label/'your label'

For example, for my page, which shows all posts with the label 'Tools', the url is:
http://travel88.blogspot.com/search/label/Tools
6) Click 'Save link' and out from this window
7) Click 'Save' to complete the addition of new page
8) The new gadget is listed as 'Pages', I drag the 'Pages' to just above my blog posts. You may place it anywhere you like.

9) This is how it looks like:

Existence

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
- Soren Kierkegaard (Danish philosopher)

One day at a time

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln

A rainy day ... naturally