18 Inspirational Quotes + 18 Amazing Sunset and Sunrise Photos

 

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1. I donā€™t know what the key to success is, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.

 

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2. Guns donā€™t kill people ā€” people do.

 

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3. The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.

 

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4. The best things in life are not things.

 

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5. The mind is like a parachute. It doesnā€™t work unless itā€™s open.

 

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6. Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up!

 

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7. Empty cans make the most noise.

 

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8. Just because someone doesn’t speak a lot doesn’t mean heā€™s shy, ā€œStill water runs deepā€.

 

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9. All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

 

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10. If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.

 

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11. A shot glass of desire is greater than a pitcher of talent.

 

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12. If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow.

 

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13. Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

 

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14. Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

 

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15. Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

 

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16. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

 

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17. Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven’t paid the price to decide what is really important to them.

 

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18. People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

The Lost Dream

The dream

I finally saw my dream coming true. I didnā€™t win the lottery, as I was hoping, but my business was going well and after a few years of hard work I decided to follow my dream and go see the world. Now I finally made time to go on a ship crew…

Feeling like the master of the world, I packed my bags and headed to the ocean. It was going to be a long way and a lot of lazy days were showing ahead. Enjoying the water, the nature, relaxing and enjoying life. It seemed that I forgot how to.

Even if it was mid summer, the breeze cooled my face and made me stay on the deck for hours, staring at the seagles and the immensity of waterā€¦I was going far away, to see the beauties and wonders of the world. What I didnā€™t know was the fact that this trip would change my whole view over lifeā€¦

Armed with touristic maps and guides, I tried to find out as much as possible about the exotic places I was going to get to. Clear blue waters, souveniers, wonderful animals and people with such different occupations from what I was used to! And I was going to see all that!

Feeling enthusiastic like a child, after the sun tanned my face for so many days, I was told that we only have one more day left on the water. I felt a little disappointed because I didnā€™t see the whales swimming, as they promised, but I was still hoping for dolphins. And they didnā€™t fail me! Being the last day on the ship, I decided to wake up early and takes pictures of the sunrise. Boy, what spectacular framed memories will these make in my office!

I was getting a bit chilly when something popping out of the water made me forget about it. It was indeed a dolphin! No, wait, there are more! And there is a little one! Must be a baby. I was over my head with joy, trying to take pictures as they swam along with the ship, jumping out of the water and playing. Very curious, I was following the babyā€™s moves and I saw him approach a floatingā€¦thing. It started playing with it, throwing the object in the air and making circles around it, after it landed on the water again. But the trick only lasted for a few seconds, because when the object hit the water for the third time, a black substance spread from it, on the tiny dolphinā€™s head. Then I heard a squeeking sound and junior was gone into the deep. All the other followed in a rush. ā€œThey act like humansā€, I said to myself, disappointed that my show had ended.

Alone in the cold morning breeze, I completely forgot about my sunsetā€¦maybe because this morning the sun never showed. I was busy admiring the dolphins and didnā€™t see the clouds on the sky. And I was so busy that I didnā€™t notice that there were more floating objects on the waterā€™s surfaceā€¦They were mostly plastic bags and can with industrial oil.
Outraged at the people, myself and the whole world, I demanded to see the captain or someone who could answer my question. The money I had paid for this trip proved that even the captain is an ordinary manā€¦I was promised whales! Where were they? The agency said that in so many weeks spent on the ocean, you can see whales almost every two days or soā€¦

But the agency doesnā€™t know or care, explained the captain. For a moment I thought that he was amused, but then I saw a sad look on his face. The whales disappeared for about 2 years now, since the number of harbours increased and since the rich people decided that they want to become more rich, installing huge iron cranes and mechanisms on fake platforms in the ocean, for getting all the oilā€¦Even the dolphins are seen more rarely and often the natives find dead animals on the shoreā€¦It was even in a local newspaper that a fisherman found a dead dolphin with a plastic bag on its head and some algaes, which were assumed to gotten it stuck thereā€¦But of course that it never crossed the borders of the small island, as the newspaper was bought by a rich white man, and then dissolved.

I had nothing more to sayā€¦I couldnā€™t say anything more. Each passenger received as souvenier a shark tooth. I didnā€™t want mine. I could only spend a few days on my exotic dream island, as the stories that I heard every day only ruined my vacation. Some were told, some were seenā€¦The commerce with everything that can be found alive in the ocean was flourishing and all the excited tourists paid great deals of money for them. But I only had one word in my headā€¦POLLUTION.
Why canā€™t people see what they are destroying? The waters, the animals, the plants, the lifeā€¦their lives! Maybe not theirs yet, but what about their children and grandchildren? Why are they so greedy and stupid? Why do they do harm to what keeps us alive? The waterā€¦the Earth.

So my trip brought only sadness and frustration of being able to do nothing about itā€¦The modern newspapers talk about it, the factories recieve fines, we invented a Green Day for Earth and we like to debate it for ever, but we donā€™t actually do somethingā€¦So instead of filling my office with beautiful clear ocean pictures, I framed the following:


The Nightmare