“In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.” - Molly Ringwald. #photography

“We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.” - Martin Luther King, Jr. #photography

“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.” - Indira Gandhi. #photography

The local weather continues to be bleak and as everything looks grey, I will continue to use black and white images to portray this current mood. “Often, small things give me hope when big things feel so oppressively bleak.” - Julien Baker. #photography

“There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.” - Maya Angelou. #photography

“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.” - Erma Bombeck. #photography #marseille #clouds

“You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel.” - Mike Krzyzewski. #photography #marseille #clouds

“If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.” 🍊 - Louis D. Brandeis. #photography

For the may be cloud lovers out there! 🌫️🌥️☁️ “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” - William Shakespeare. #photography #marseille #clouds

“We have to bring the humanity and compassion back.” 😭 - Shelley Morrison. #photography

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” ✊🏼 - Dwight D. Eisenhower. #photography

“Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears.” - Demi Lovato. #photography #marseille

“Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it.” 🍊 - Sylvia Plath. #photography #marseille

“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” 🍊 - George Bernard Shaw. #photography #marseille

“What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?” - E. M. Forster. #photography #marseille

“When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.” 🍊 - Sylvia Plath. #photography

“The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.” - Henry Ward Beecher. #photography

“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.” - William Hazlitt. #photography #marseille

“My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.” - Joni Mitchell. #photography

“Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.” - John Burroughs. #photography

“Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning.” - Eckhard Pfeiffer. #photography

Because it is raining heavily here in Marseille, there is a strong possibility that this morning’s sunrise will only be witnessed above the clouds…so I present to you this… “In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.” - Robert Green Ingersoll. #photography

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” - Robert Frost. #photography

“My witness is the empty sky.” - Jack Kerouac. #photography #marseille

“When one has taken root, one puts out branches.” - Unknown. #photography #marseille

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo. #photography #marseille

In a time of chaos, when pain and struggles are a daily hardship for the many…there is love & hope.✊🏼 ….”but while a voice within me cries I’m sure someone may answer my call And this bitter earth Ooh, may not, oh, be so bitter after all.” - Dinah Washington & This Bitter Earth. 🎶🎶🎶 #photography

“There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.” - Leonardo da Vinci. #photography

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” - Pablo Picasso. #photography

“I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.” - Bill Bryson. #photography #marseille

“Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.” - William Shakespeare. #photography

“The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.” - Simone Weil. #photography #sky

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.” - John Keats. #photography

“Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.” - Thomas Jefferson. #photography #marseille

Since the weather is currently cloudy, windy and wet….you have this from yesterday morning instead! I have even recycled my favourite quote! 🤣😂🤭 “Bees don’t waste their time telling flies that honey is better than shit.” - Unknown. #photography #marseille

“Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.” - Carl Sandburg. #photography #marseille

“No man was ever wise by chance.” - Lucius Annaeus Seneca. 🍊 #photography #marseille

“Courage is found in unlikely places.” - J. R. R. Tolkien. #photography #marseille

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” - Desmond Tutu. #photography

This image is for the cloud lovers amongst you! Whereas the quote is for one of the worst human beings that ever lived! 🍊 “Let no such man be trusted.” - William Shakespeare. #photography

“Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.” - Margaret Mead. #photography #marseille

“It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.” - Mark Twain. #photography

“When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.” - Samuel Goldwyn. #photography

“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.” - Og Mandino. #photography

“We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.” - Navjot Singh Sidhu. #photography #marseille

“Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.” - Joyce Meyer. #photography #marseille

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” - Lao Tzu. #photography

“Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.” - Andre Gide. #photography

“I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.” - Mae West. #photography

This is dedicated to those of you who are stuck “in your corner of the forest!” “You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” - A. A. Milne. #photography #marseille