Italy

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Burma

Forever is composed of nows.- Emily Dickinson

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Cambodia 3

Brazil

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their

island of opportunities and look toward another land.

There is no other land; there is no other life but this.- Henry David Thoreau

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India

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India

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Burma7

Burma

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Yemen

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Shoe repair shop in India10

Burma

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Mumbai, India

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Gujarat, India

All happiness depends on courage and work.- Honore de Balzac

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MKS Steelworks, Serbia

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Japan

Working for long periods under extreme stressful work conditions can lead to

sudden death, a phenomenon the Japanese call karoshi. The word in China is guolaosi

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Landi Kotal, Pakistan

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Bakery run by Afghan widows, Kabul, Afghanistan

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Croatia 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.

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India

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Sugar cane farmer, Philippines Mumbai, India

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Drying coffee beans, Brazil

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Flower Seller, Dal Lake, Kashmir

If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven 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.

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India

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Tibet

Afghanistan

A smile is the universal welcome.- Max Eastman

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Afghanistan

Burma

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An Indian tailor caught in the monsoon floodwaters in Porbandar, India

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Afghanistan

Look back, and smile on perils past.- Sir Walter Scott

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. - William Shakespeare, Othello

Cambodia

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Kashmir

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Afghanistan

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Burma

china

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.– Henry Ward Beecher 30

Celebration in Berlin, Germany Honduras

Peace begins with a smile.- Mother Teresa 31

Afghanistan

Iraq 32

Vietnam

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burma

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Afghanistan

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.- Thich Nhat Hanh

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Cambodia

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Havana, Cuba

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Ethiopia

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All things counter, original, spare, strange;Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)

With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:

Praise him.- Gerard Manley Hopkinsquoted in the Daily Good

Italy

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Ethiopia

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LaosTo banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. - John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice

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View of Preah Khan, Cambodia

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Russia

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Procession of Nuns, Yangon

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Fisherman on Inle Lake with the Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda in the distance

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Mingun Pagoda

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Golden rock, Kyaiktiyo, Myanmar

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Bagan, the ancient capital, where thousands of temples, monasteries, and stupas were built.

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Sittwe, Burma

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Mandalay

Even the son of the foolish can be a sage ; even the son of a poor man can be rich. Do not be contemptuous of anyone

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Yangon, Burma

Yangon

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Yangon train

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Monk reads Buddhist scriptures at monastery in Yangon

Yangon53

Monk walks through a Buddha statue workshop, Mandalay

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Young Monk in Mandalay55

Yangon

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Italy

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AfghanistanAfghanistan

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United States

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India

India

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Eddie Lee 李常生 Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. 6/26/2013All photos were taken from McCurry’s blogleechangsheng6666@gmail.com