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 blogleechangsheng6666@gmail.com

A child loves his play, not because it’s easy,but because it’s hard.

- Benjamin Spock

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