You are the universe experiencing itself.  

Alan Watts

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.

Larry Wilde 

The Merry Book of Christmas

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

John Muir

 

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between. 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple

 

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you. 

Dorothea Lange

Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a physical and intellectual joy. 

Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

Be kind. 

Every person you meet 
is fighting a difficult battle.

Plato

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

Clement Clarke Moore

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. 

Maya Angelou

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Maya Angelou

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

Norman Vincent Peale

With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.

Robert Mapplethorpe

. . .this marvelous city.  

Bazaar of all the nations of the globe,  (compares) with the fantastic creations of ‘The Thousand and One Nights'.

Edmond Auger  

French gold hunter seeing San Francisco in 1849

This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. 

Edward Weston

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!

Charles Dickens

 The Pickwick Papers

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

Jacques Henri-Lartigue

We are a landscape of all we have seen. 

Isamu Noguchi

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly. 

F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.  

John Howard Payne

 

 

Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

Jack Kerouac

This benefit of seeing...can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image...the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.

Dorothea Lange

 

Home is where the heart is. 

Pliny the Elder

The entire universe is a great theatre of mirrors. 

Alice Bailey

I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe.

Jane Goodall

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

Sam Abell

There is a Christmas song upon the air,
There is a joy innate within the heart;
An inner sense of peace, a holy light
Illumines life and sets these days apart.

Edna Greene Hines

 

To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every cubic inch of space is a miracle. 

Walt Whitman

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

Hans Christian Andersen

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Marcus Aurelius

 

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music. 

Ludwig von Beethoven

Christmas! ‘Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Washington Irving

It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.

Louisa May Alcott

Oh friends, put aside these sounds! 
Let us be more civil to each other,
And speak more joyfully.

Beethoven

Music is the highest, most powerful, most overriding, of all the arts. In the presence of music, all the other arts take on the character of the music, not vice versa, and is capable of, and can produce in us, the finest, most delicate of possible human reactions. 

Mark Anstendig

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas;
Soon the bells will start,
And the thing that will make them ring
Is the carol that you sing
Right within your heart. 

Meredith Willson 

It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

Where thou art, that is home. 

Emily Dickinson

When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.

Harat Inayat Khan

 

 

 

 

 

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. 

Mother Teresa

'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale;
'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale;
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man's heart through half the year.

Walter Scott

 

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love. 

Lucinda Franks

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. 

Jane Austen

 

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Maya Angelou

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Dorothea Lange

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. 

Oscar Wilde

 

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Home, the spot of earth supremely blest,
A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. 

Robert Montgomery

Sing hey! Sing hey!
For Christmas Day;
Twine mistletoe and holly.
For a friendship glows
In winter snows,
And so let's all be jolly!

Author Unknown

 

The water colored twilight, 
with pelicans and Alcatraz on San Francisco Bay, 
as seen from Treasure Island. 
In the chilly air, 
I catch through my lens, 
the sense of an infinite profoundness, 
like a falling star. 
Go figure. 

Ron Henggeler  

 

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

Michelangelo

 

Seven out of ten Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless. 

Pras Michel

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents. 

Ludwig van Beethoven

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members. 

Mahatma Gandhi

 

 

 

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

I thought I saw the face of God. 

George Frideric Handel

Handel's Messiah in Grace Cathedral

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. 

Being alive is the meaning.

Joseph Campbell

The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual. 

Edward Weston

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men. 

Giorgio de Chirico

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

Elliot Erwitt

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep. 

William Shakespeare

Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions and conceptions. 

Dorothea Lange

The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one. 

William Blake

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. 

William Shakespeare