Italy 1

Burma Forever is composed of nows. - Emily Dickinson 2

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 4

India 5

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Burma 7

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Yemen 9

Shoe repair shop in India 10

Burma 11

Mumbai, India 12

Gujarat, India All happiness depends on courage and work. - Honore de Balzac 13

MKS Steelworks, Serbia 14

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 15

Landi Kotal, Pakistan 16

Bakery run by Afghan widows, Kabul, Afghanistan 17

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. 18

India 19

Sugar cane farmer, Philippines Mumbai, India 20

Drying coffee beans, Brazil 21

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. 22

India 23

Tibet Afghanistan A smile is the universal welcome. - Max Eastman 24

Afghanistan Burma 25

An Indian tailor caught in the monsoon floodwaters in Porbandar, India 26

Afghanistan Look back, and smile on perils past. - Sir Walter Scott The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. - William Shakespeare, Othello Cambodia 27

Kashmir 28

Afghanistan 29

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 33

burma 34

Afghanistan Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. - Thich Nhat Hanh 35

Cambodia 36

Havana, Cuba 37

Ethiopia 38

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 Hopkins quoted in the Daily Good Italy 39

Ethiopia 40

Laos To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. - John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice 41

View of Preah Khan, Cambodia 42

Russia 43

Procession of Nuns, Yangon 44

Fisherman on Inle Lake with the Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda in the distance 45

Mingun Pagoda 46

Golden rock, Kyaiktiyo, Myanmar 47

Bagan, the ancient capital, where thousands of temples, monasteries, and stupas were built. 48

Sittwe, Burma 49

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 50

Yangon, Burma Yangon 51

Yangon train 52

Monk reads Buddhist scriptures at monastery in Yangon Yangon 53

Monk walks through a Buddha statue workshop, Mandalay 54

Young Monk in Mandalay 55

Yangon 56

Italy 57

Afghanistan 58

United States 59

India 60

61 Eddie Lee 李常生 Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. 6/26/2013 All photos were taken from McCurry’s blog