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

看山还是山

Photo: Taken at Yamdrok Lake , 2012

the life in your years

In the end it’s not the years in your life that count.  It’s the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln

山色空濛雨亦奇

水光瀲灩晴方好，山色空濛雨亦奇。

欲把西湖比西子，淡妝濃抹總相宜。

- 蘇軾 

Photo: The West Lake, China (2006)

It's what you see that matters

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

Photo: 2013 @ Taiping Lake Gardens (Malaysia)

桥上看风景

你站在桥上看风景，看风景人在楼上看你。
明月装饰了你的窗子，你装饰了别人的梦。
《断章》卞之琳

Scanned Photo: Taken in China, 2002

The end of labor is to gain leisure

The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle

坐看雲起時

Photo: (措那湖 Tsonag Lake) Taken in 2012 while travelling on Qingzang train to Lhasa.

How you remember your life

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez （Colombian novelist）

Photo: taken in Tibet, China in 2010

what lies inside of you

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

雞公碗

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
- Oscar Wilde

一粒米中藏世界

一粒米中藏世界；
半邊鍋裏煮乾坤。

[据说：四川峨嵋山洪椿坪（原名千佛禪院）有此副對聯]

There are always flowers for those who want to see them

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
- Henri Matisse 

Photo: Taken at Cameron Highlands, Malaysia in 2013