Gravity works long hours, tall buildings come to rest across our shoulders, the sky is different, and the hands of clocks spin to make us older. - Ronald Wardall

Chrysler building, NY

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The Environment and Development Division (EDD) of UNESCAP has published a report titled,the Low Carbon Green Growth Roadmap for Asia and the Pacific, UNESCAP Reference No.: ST/ESCAP/2631. The report explores the opportunities that a low carbon green growth path offers to the…

…beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror. - Gibran (Taken with instagram)

"The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire."

Carl Jung

"Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars."

Serbian Proverb 

"If you open up too much, people can fall in and hurt themselves."

I Wrote This For You: The Beautiful Trap

"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

Mark Twain

"Everyone says that love hurts, but that’s not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Everyone confuses these things with love, but in reality, Love is the only thing in this world that covers up all the pain and makes us feel wonderful again."

Anonymous

"Always remember, the whole world acts like a screen, and you go on projecting yourself. Whatsoever you say about others, says more about you. It does not say anything about others; because how can you know others? — you don’t even know yourself."

Osho

(via theministryoftruth)

I looked before there was beauty. I turned around there was more.

@ Bryant park, NYC. 

之所以不幸福，往往是因为我意识不到那些幸福的时刻，并且无法接受幸福的设想不等于幸福的现实的事实。就像我预想了苹果的色香味，于是不能达标的便都不是苹果，而我即便吃光全世界的苹果也许仍不认为自己吃过苹果。我总算了解了上帝让我苹果过敏的苦心——对于我这种人来说，不再吃苹果才能万事太平。 (Taken with instagram)

你和他的缘分就是今生今世不断地在目送他的背影渐行渐远。你站在小路的这一端，看着他逐渐消失在小路转弯的地方，而且，他用背影告诉你：不必追。

龙应台《目送》

Spring day in Brooklyn botanic garden, NY.

Running for meetings on a day of 36 degrees 😳 (Taken with Instagram at Ministry of Industry & Trade (Bộ Công Thương))

“Sa douceur était restée entière dans la douleur. Il ne parlait pas de cette douleur, il n’en avait jamais dit un mot. Parfois son visage tremblait, il fermait les yeux et des dents se serraient. Mais il se taisait toujours sur les images qu’il voyait derrière ses yeux fermés. On aurait dit qu’il aimait cette douleur, qu’il l’aimait comme il m’avait aimée, très fort, jusqu’à mourir peut-être, et que maintenant il la préférait à moi.” Duras