One of the earliest travelers’ tales was Homer’s Odyssey, from 800 B.C.E., it was the story of Odysseus’ journey home after the Trojan Wars.
Bangladesh
India
He who does not travel does not know the value of men. – Moorish proverb
Cambodia
Thailand
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – St. Augustine
Australia
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. – Anais Nin
Mali
Vietnam
Tibet
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. – Lao Tzu
India
Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes. -Yasmina Khadra
Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Do not follow where a path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kashmir
Greece
Afghanistan
India
Buses are the world’s ride. They are more than a mode of transportation; they help all kinds of people get where they need to go. In that sense, they are the great leveler. – Kaye Earle
Petra, Jordan
Egypt
India
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. – Helen Keller
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ICONS
Pier ⅔ Walsh Bay Suite 3/13A Hickson Road, Dawes Point, 2000 Sydney, Australia
Wed, Apr 12, 2023 – Sun, Aug 13, 2023
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STEVE McCURRY
Istanbul Sinema Müzesi Kuloğlu, İstiklal Cd. No 131/A Istanbul, Turkey
Sat, Apr 15, 2023 – Sun, Jul 30, 2023
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CHILDREN
Museo degli Innocenti Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, 13 Florence, Italy
Fri, May 19, 2023 – Sun, Oct 8, 2023
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ICONS
Museo Franz Mayer Av. Hidalgo 45, Centro Histórico Mexico City, Mexico
If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. – Japanese Proverb
Pakistan
Tea Tasters and Testers, Sri Lanka
Tea seller carries kettle inmonsoon waters, India
Afghanistan
The earliest record of tea consumption were in China with records dating back to the 10th century B.C.E.
Afghanistan
Africa
We haven’t had any tea for a week. The bottom is out of the Universe. -Rudyard Kipling
Tibet
Afghanistan
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. – C.S. Lewis
Bangladesh
It is believed that the earliest use of coffee was in Ethiopia. It spread to Yemen by the fifteenth century, and to the rest of the Middle East, Turkey, Persia, North Africa and then to Europe and the Americas.
Brazil
I’d rather take coffee than compliments just now. – Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
Honduras
Ethiopia
Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. – Turkish Proverb
Colombia
The powers of a man’s mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks. – Sir James Mackintosh
Peru
Brazil
Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine! I must have my coffee. – Johann Sebastian Bach Kaffee Kantate
Cuba
Montenegro
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee’s frothy goodness. – Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
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EXHIBITIONS
ICONS
Pier ⅔ Walsh Bay Suite 3/13A Hickson Road, Dawes Point, 2000 Sydney, Australia
Wed, Apr 12, 2023 – Sun, Aug 13, 2023
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STEVE McCURRY
Istanbul Sinema Müzesi Kuloğlu, İstiklal Cd. No 131/A Istanbul, Turkey
Sat, Apr 15, 2023 – Sun, Jul 30, 2023
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CHILDREN
Museo degli Innocenti Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, 13 Florence, Italy
Fri, May 19, 2023 – Sun, Oct 8, 2023
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ICONS
Museo Franz Mayer Av. Hidalgo 45, Centro Histórico Mexico City, Mexico
Whether it is men fishing, nuns washing dishes, miners digging beneath the earth, or working in the heat of a steel mill, work is universal, yet intensely personal. Millions work in order to survive, and for them, there is no debate about how to achieve a life / work balance.
Nepal, 1983.
Tanzania, 2012.
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor. -Ulysses S. Grant
India, 1996.
Morocco, 1988.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. -Horace
Burma, 1994.
Everything yields to diligence. -Thomas Jefferson
Afghanistan, 2002.
Spain, 2016.
The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Afghanistan, 1992.
Indonesia, 1983.
Many find their identity in the work they do. Some enjoy intense satisfaction in their work. For others, the line between work and play is hard to find.
Kenya, 2015.
Serbia, 1989.
If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, orBeethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will pause to say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
Afghanistan, 1992.
Brazil, 2010.
Afghanistan, 2008.
Croatia; 1989.
The stories of countless successful individuals are testaments to the transformative power of the grind. Whether it be athletes, entrepreneurs, artists, or scientists, they all share a common thread: an unwavering commitment to working tirelessly towards their goals.
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EXHIBITIONS
ICONS
Pier ⅔ Walsh Bay Suite 3/13A Hickson Road, Dawes Point, 2000 Sydney, Australia
Wed, Apr 12, 2023 – Sun, Aug 13, 2023
STEVE McCURRY
Istanbul Sinema Müzesi Kuloğlu, İstiklal Cd. No 131/A Istanbul, Turkey
Sat, Apr 15, 2023 – Sun, Jul 30, 2023
CHILDREN
Museo degli Innocenti Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, 13 Florence, Italy
Fri, May 19, 2023 – Sun, Oct 8, 2023
ICONS
Museo Franz Mayer Av. Hidalgo 45, Centro Histórico Mexico City, Mexico
Behold the hands how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
-Michel de Montaigne
Vietnam, 2007.
Our hands often reveal what we really think but do not say. They can show a range of feelings and emotions from confusion and frustration to joy, understanding, love, and compassion.
Afghanistan, 1990.
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
USA, 1987.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our painand touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
-Henri Nouwen
Cuba, 2010.
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
-Mother Teresa
China, 1998.
Hands calm us, feed us, and scratch our backs. They intimidate, bless, encourage, and stop us. They soothe and caress. They draw our attention to the good and the bad, often suggesting exuberance or fear.
-Charles Flowers introduction to Elliott Erwitt’s Handbook
Mali, 1986.
Kashmir, 1999.
Hands have saved lives and taken them just as easily. They create the saviors of life as well as the purveyors of death. Creating and destroying with a single move a finger can move mountains or search the unknown heavens. Hands live to caress and love. Hands live to fight and die. Forever living hands, forever exploring hands.
-Bruce Alan Humphrey
Afghanistan, 1992.
To receive everything, one must open one’s hands and give.
-Taisen Deshimaru
Burma, 1995.
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)
Ireland, 1992.
Hold a true friend with both hands
-African Proverb
Paraguay, 1988.
To pray means to open your hands before God.
-Henri Nouwen
USA, 1986.
Afghanistan, 1980.
Russia, 2012.
The hands which beckon, embrace, soothe, and comfort us Bid us farewell.
Uganda, 2001.
Chad, 1985.
… For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch, And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss. Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene 5
-William Shakespeare
Burma, 2017.
Honduras, 2004.
Benin, 2017.
EXHIBITIONS
ICONS
Pier ⅔ Walsh Bay Suite 3/13A Hickson Road, Dawes Point, 2000 Sydney, Australia
Wed, Apr 12, 2023 – Sun, Aug 13, 2023
STEVE McCURRY
Istanbul Sinema Müzesi Kuloğlu, İstiklal Cd. No 131/A Istanbul, Turkey
Sat, Apr 15, 2023 – Sun, Jul 30, 2023
CHILDREN
Museo degli Innocenti Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, 13 Florence, Italy
Fri, May 19, 2023 – Sun, Oct 8, 2023
ICONS
Museo Franz Mayer Av. Hidalgo 45, Centro Histórico Mexico City, Mexico
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