“Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.” —Boris Pasternak
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Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.
Ralph Marston
(Source: mimasux)
“To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.”
(Source: time-slipsaway)
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There are many reasons not to take a picture—especially if you find the act of making pictures difficult. I was not brought up with a camera, I had no early fascination for pictures, no romantic encounters with the darkroom—in fact I didn’t become a photographer until much later on in life when I came to realize that photography—especially documentary photography—had many possibilities. One thing for sure was that it would make me confront any inherent shyness that I might feel. It did, but I still find making pictures difficult, especially negotiating and confronting “the other,” the subject, and dealing with my own motivations and feelings about that process.
Tim Hetherington’s excerpt from The Photographs Not Taken, read more here.
i was making a lot of mistakes and then my archery instructor said:
“you make mistakes because you’re focusing on the target and not on your actions”
and i was like woah
thanks for giving me the best life advice i’ve ever gotten
I just said “that’s brilliant” aloud.
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How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.
David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King
(Source: nequiquam)
Typewriter Series #381 by Tyler Knott Gregson
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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
(Source: infelicific)
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Whatever happens, happens to you, by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.
Sir Nisargadatta Maharaj
(Source: wethinkwedream)
