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~ Our entire life consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are. ~

~ We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principal goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained. ~

Barack Obama

~ Disappointment is often the salt of life. ~

Theodore Parker

~ Nothing in life is promised except death. ~

Kanye West

~ Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on. ~

Maxwell Maltz

~ An individual's self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavior: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change. A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life. ~

Dr. Joyce Brothers

~ Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle. ~

Charles Caleb Colton

~ We often think of peace as the absence of war; that if the powerful countries would reduce their arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we see our own minds - our prejudices, fears, and ignorance. Even if we transported all the bombs to the moon, the roots of war and the reasons for bombs would still be here, in our hearts and minds, and sooner or later we would make new bombs. Seek to become more aware of what causes anger and separation, and what overcomes them. Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully ~

Thich Nhat Hanh

~ How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ~

George Washington Carver

~ The greatest quest in life is to reach one's potential. ~

Mychal Wynn

~ The greatest quest in life is to reach one's potential. ~

Mychal Wynn

George Washington Carver

~ In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite. It is death which is m ~

Rabindranath Tagore

~ A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. ~

Cyril Connolly

~ The word "art" means harmony for me. I never speak of mathematics and never bother with the Spirit. My only science is the choice of impressions that the light in the universe furnishes to my consciousness as an artisan which I try, by imposing an Order, and Art, an appropriate representative life, to organize... ~

Robert Delaunay

~ With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. ~

William Wordsworth

~ A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole ~

Sir Rabindranath Tagore

~ There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this ~

Miyamoto Musashi

~ One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life ~

Napoleon Hill

~ I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others ~

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

~ It's weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don't even amount to a couple of hours. ~

James Lalropui Keivom

~ A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety ~

Ansel Adams

~ I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting. ~

Harry Callahan

~ Life is like a good black and white photograph, there's black, there's white, and lots of shades in between ~

George H. Harrison

~ Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens ~

Karl Heiner

~ I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting. ~

Harry Callahan

~ For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of a compelling impulse I cannot deny. Whether working with a human figure or a still life, I am deeply aware of my spiritual connection with it. In my life, as in my work, I am motivated by a great yearning for balance and harmony beyond the realm of human experience, reaching for the essence of oneness with the Universe. ~

Ruth Bernhard

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