2. Italy 1

3. Burma Forever is composed of nows. - Emily Dickinson 2

4. Cambodia 3

5. 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

6. India 5

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8. Burma 7

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10. Yemen 9

11. Shoe repair shop in India 10

12. Burma 11

13. Mumbai, India 12

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

15. MKS Steelworks, Serbia 14

16. 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

17. Landi Kotal, Pakistan 16

18. Bakery run by Afghan widows, Kabul, Afghanistan 17

19. 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

20. India 19

21. Sugar cane farmer, Philippines Mumbai, India 20

22. Drying coffee beans, Brazil 21

23. 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

24. India 23

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

26. Afghanistan Burma 25

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

28. 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

29. Kashmir 28

30. Afghanistan 29

31. 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

32. Celebration in Berlin, Germany Honduras Peace begins with a smile. - Mother Teresa 31

33. Afghanistan Iraq 32

34. Vietnam 33

35. burma 34

36. 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

37. Cambodia 36

38. Havana, Cuba 37

39. Ethiopia 38

40. 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

41. Ethiopia 40

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

43. View of Preah Khan, Cambodia 42

44. Russia 43

45. Procession of Nuns, Yangon 44

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

47. Mingun Pagoda 46

48. Golden rock, Kyaiktiyo, Myanmar 47

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

50. Sittwe, Burma 49

51. 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

52. Yangon, Burma Yangon 51

53. Yangon train 52

54. Monk reads Buddhist scriptures at monastery in Yangon Yangon 53

55. Monk walks through a Buddha statue workshop, Mandalay 54

56. Young Monk in Mandalay 55

57. Yangon 56

58. Italy 57

59. Afghanistan 58

60. United States 59

61. India 60

62. 61 Eddie Lee 李常生 Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. 6/26/2013 All photos were taken from McCurry’s blog leechangsheng6666@gmail.com