"I believe that, with anything in life, if you have the patience, desire and passion, you can do whatever you set your mind to."

-- Ed Viesturs

#Believe Quotes #Passion Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.”
“I donâ€™t use an exposure meter. My personal advice is: Spend the money you would put into such an instrument for film. Buy yards of film, miles of it. Buy all the film you can get your hands on. And then experiment with it.That is the only way to be successful in photography. Test, try, experiment, feel your way along. It is the experience, not technique, which counts in camera work first of all. If you get the feel of photography, you can take fifteen pictures while one of your opponents is trying out his exposure meter.”
“I do think, where would kids be if it weren't for you and for the good pediatricians, and for the good parents? I passionately believe in sitting a child on your lap and tracing the lines of the book with your finger, and they can read before they know they can, if you bother enough. I did it with my kids, and they're doing it with their kids now.”
“Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system. Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity. Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs. The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.”
“We can easily become loyal to our suffering â€¦ but it's not the end of the path.”
“I've never declined to do an interview.”
“There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.”
“A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.”

Source : Lisa Kleypas (2012). “Christmas with Holly”, p.102, Macmillan

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