As life goes on,
Pain is felt,
Tears are cried
And miseries are put into the utmost bottom of your heart...
The truth has to be accepted,
The past cannot be altered,
But the future can,
Life goes on, live it...

(Levi Chang)


...taken at the Camondo Stairs in Karakoy...

Istanbul, Turkey...

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Life... life is a curve... full of ups and downs...
Most people just follow this curve as if it were fate... but it is not fate...
The decisions you make affect the rest of your life...
So where are you on this curve?...
Take a moment to stop... to think... to evaluate...
What could you do to start a new upward curve?...
May be now it's time to ask yourself where you are today...
and where you want to be tomorrow...

(...from a Fortis commercial...)


...taken at the Haydarpasa Train Station in Kadikoy...

Istanbul, Turkey...

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Life ain't no crystal stairs my son
Sometimes it seems unfair making you want to scream
It's best to hold it in and keep your head held high
Because those stairs are so steep and high to the sky
Keep climbing boy, dont fall down when you miss one
Rebound and start climbing again until you are done...

(...adapted from the ghetto-intellectual re-mix of the Langston Hughes' poem...)


...taken at the Yapi Kredi Vedat Nedim Tor Museum in Galatasaray...

Istanbul, Turkey...

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As years go by
And the time we've had
I can't help but feel
My heart is sad

We're so far apart
Across this land
In silence I remember
Your mother's hand...

(Lagaya Evans)


...taken in the courtyard of the Archaeological Museum, housed in the medieval building of the hospital of knights, in the old town...

Rhodes, Greece...

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Beneath the weight of the world I can be found
Among the chaos and the wheel, scattered all around.
On the wild windy wave I'm tossed, cast away and lost,
Now I understand what those sad songs say.

Make up your mind to be happy,
Life is a merry-go-round.
If you miss out this time,
Don't let it fret your mind,
Love will come round in the end...

(J.Donovan)


...taken at the Camondo stairs in Karakoy...

Istanbul, Turkey...

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