| The Top of the World |
| Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small opportunities surround us every day. -- Sally Koch |
| The essence of religion is compassion and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. The proof of a person's love of God is if that person shows love to fellow human beings. -- H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama |
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| The photos on this page are courtesy of: Kepguru.com, National Geographic, fanz, hiro008, rakustow, DhilungKirat, reurinkjan, Flickr's United Nations Photostream. Quotes are courtesy of Daily Celebrations. |
| Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth. -- Buddha |
| Compassion is a keen awareness of the interdependence of all things. -- Thomas Merton |
| In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things. -- Pablo Casals |
| If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. -- Buddha |
| Photos above & below, Prayer Flags strung along mountain peaks in Tibet. The flags are a tradition generally found only among Tibetan Buddhists and contain messages filled with peace, hope, compassion, strength and wisdom. It's hoped that the words will be blown about by the wind and the good will and compassion of the messages will benefit all people. Just as life moves on and is replaced by new life, the Tibetans renew their hopes for the world by continually mounting new flags alongside the old. |
| It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make the world tolerable. If it were not for the effect of kindnesses, multiplying, spreading and bringing forth benefits a thousand fold, I should be tempted to think that our life is a practical joke in the worst possible spirit. -- Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Once we believe, even for an instant, that there can be anything in the world more important than compassion for a fellow human being, then there is no crime against man that we cannot commit with an easy conscience. -- Leo Tolstoy |
| As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency. -- Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg |
| If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you? -- Bruno Yasendky |
| The crest of one distinguished family reads simply, "I serve," and no better motto can be found. We cannot determine whether our faces shall be beautiful or ugly, our bodies graceful or deformed. But the shaping of our lives is in our own hands. We make that great or small, noble or mean, as we will. -- George Henry Hubbard |
| Compassion is a necessity, not a luxury. Without it, humanity cannot survive. -- H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama |
| Tibet has the distinction of being the highest region on earth. It sits atop the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, and boasts an average elevation of 16,000 feet. For this reason, it's sometimes referred to as the "top of the world" or the "roof of the world." The Himalayas divide Tibet and its neighbor to the south, Nepal. This mountain range claims eight of the world's ten tallest mountains, including the highest, Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest). Both Tibet and Nepal possess vast geographical diversity and breathtaking landscapes. This has made them popular destinations for photographers from all over the world. All of the photos on this page were taken in Tibet and Nepal. |
| Live for the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, For the good that you can do. -- G. Linnaeus Banks |