taking things for granted?

This was written by a POW - a list of things he'd like to eat if he made it home (he did)

I Am Second

www.iamsecond.com

I Am Second

A well produced website full of short video interviews. Each interview tells a personal story along the theme of I Am Second.

“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”

Sophia Loren quotes (Italian film Actress, b.1934)

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart”

Kahlil Gibran quotes (Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and Poet. 1883-1931)

“Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it”

Confucius quotes (China's most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, 551-479 BC)

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross quotes (Swiss-American psychiatrist and author )

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself

Anna Quindlen (1953 - )

“For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.”

Ivan Panin (Russian mathematician1855-1942)

from www.thinkexist.com

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

John Cage (composer, 1912 - 1992)

from www.quotationspage.com