ordinary people of the world 市井小民 (86)
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Burma
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Slovenia
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Tibet
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Afghanistan
Mali 4
Malaysia
Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. - Welsh Proverb
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Something magical happens when parents turns into grandparents. Their attitude changes from “money-doesn’t-grow-on-trees” to spending it like it does.- Paul Linden
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India
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Philippine
Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us,
as no one in our entire lives has ever done, not our parents, siblings, spouses, friends,
and hardly ever our own grown children. - Ruth Goode
Germany
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Burma
Lebanon
The best place to be when you’re sad is a grandparent’s lap 9
Italy
Italy
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Kashmir
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India
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Burma
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India14
Honduras
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Yemen
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France
Afghanistan
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Iraq
Finland
Constant attention by a good nurse may bejust as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
- Dag Hammarskjold18
Russia
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India
Afghanistan
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.- Rumi
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United states
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Eloquence of the Eye
The soul has an interpreter – often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter – in the eye.
- Charlotte Bronte
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India
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Peshawar, Pakistan
Omo Valley, EthiopiaThe eye is the jewel of the body. - Henry David Thoreau 24
Italy
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Rajasthan, India
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Rajasthan, India
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Lhasa, Tibet
Nuristan Province, Afghanistan
The eyes speak of things we dare not say.
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Pakistan
Niger
The eyes are the most powerful social signalers that we have and hence are sometimes called the windows of the soul. - Glen Wilson29
India
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India
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Yemen
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Vietnam
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Italy
Baluchistan, Pakistan
Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome;the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home.
- Sarah J. Hale (1788- 1879)
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Karelia, Russia
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. - Spanish Proverb
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Honduras
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Tibet
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Paris, FranceIndia
There is only one good-looking child in the world, and every mother has it.- Chinese Proverb
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Yemen
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Fiji
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India Yemen
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New York, United States
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AfghanistanSharbat Gula, Nasir Bagh Refugee Camp, Peshawar, Pakistan
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Afghanistan
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New York City, United States
Florida, United States
Among all species, our human hands are unique — not only in what they can accomplish, but also in how they communicate. Human hands can paint the Sistine Chapel, pluck a guitar, maneuver surgical instruments, chisel a David, forge steel, and write poetry. They can grasp, scratch, poke, punch, feel, sense, evaluate, hold and mold the world around us.- Joe Navarro
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Kashmir
Cuba
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Mali
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Ireland
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Burma
Japan
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings. - Rumi ( 1207 – 1273) 50
Kunar Province, AfghanistanParaguay
To pray means to open your hands before God. - Henri Nouwen
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Power of Play
Ethiopia
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Tibet
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Afghanistan
China 54
India
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Cambodia
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Tibet
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India
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Mauritania
People tend to forget that play is serious. - David Hockney
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Mali
Afghanistan
Eddie Lee 李常生 Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. 6/26/2013All photos were taken from McCurry’s [email protected]
A child loves his play, not because it’s easy,but because it’s hard.
- Benjamin Spock
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