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Roberta Flack – the first time ever I saw your face

Soul Music / 1972 / Soul / 5.22 min / Photographer – Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph – Summit Climb, Mt Kosciuszko Australia / LoadingBookmark

The song became a major international hit for Roberta Flack and winning the Grammy Awards for Record and Song of the year. It was written by Ewan MacColl…

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Chinese Proverb – adapt

Soul Quote / China / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph - Water and Stones, Kaikoura New Zealand / LoadingBookmark

“A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.”

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Isaac Newton – oceans of truth

Soul Quote / Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England / 1642 -1726 / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph - Currumbin Beach, Queensland, Australia / LoadingBookmark

“To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.”

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James Allen – mind’s garden

Mind Quote / Leicester, England / 1864 - 1912 / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph – Garden flowers, Bowral Australia / LoadingBookmark

“A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind. “

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Jackie De Shannon – what the world needs now is love

Soul Music / 1965 / Folk Rock, Jazz, Soul / 3.10 min / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph – Love Angels, Sydney Australia / LoadingBookmark

The song is composed by Burt Bacharach with lyrics by Hal David and popularised by Jackie De Shannon. As many of Burt Bacharach songs this…

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William Shakespeare – destiny

Soul Quote / Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England / 1564 - 1616 / Photographer – Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph - Sunset Desert, Dubai, United Arab Emirates / LoadingBookmark

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

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Leonardo da Vinci – connect

Soul Quote / Vinci, Italy / 1452 – 1519 / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph – Birds in flight, Snapper Rocks Australia / LoadingBookmark

“Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”

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Helen Keller – sunshine

Soul Quote / Tuscumbia, Alabama, United States / 1880-1968 / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph – Sun on Rainbow, Rainbow Bay Australia / LoadingBookmark

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”

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Coldplay – paradise

Soul Music / 2011 / Electronic Rock, R&B / 4.38 min / Photographer Janet Zenari / Photograph – Seaview, Corfu Greece / LoadingBookmark

Paradise is a single from Coldplay’s album Mylo Xyloto. It is written by Coldplay and Brian Eno. It was nominated for Best Pop Duo Group Performance…

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Aesop – feathers

Soul Quote / Amorium, Turkey / 620 BC - 564 BC / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph – Flight of a seagull, Kiama Australia / LoadingBookmark

“It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”

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Confucius – transformation

Soul Quote / Zou, Lu state, Ancient China / 551 BC – 479 BC / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph - Swiss countryside, Switzerland / LoadingBookmark

“Whoever knows essentially his own nature, can know also that of other men and can penetrate into the nature of beings. He can collaborate in the transformation and the progress of heaven and earth.”

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Leonardo da Vinci – time present

Soul Quote / Vinci, Italy / 1452 – 1519 / Photographer – Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph – Brenta River, Bassano Del Grappa, Italy / LoadingBookmark

“The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present. Life, if well spent, is long.”

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