"Inner Nature, when relied on, cannot be fooled. Â But many people do not look at it or listen to it, and consequently do not understand themselves very much. Â Having little understanding of themselves, they have little respect for themselves, and are therefore easily influenced by others."

-- Benjamin Hoff

#People Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Looks Quotes

“All my photographs seep through EMOTION , through the relationship I establish with the place I am portraying. Whenever I see something that captivates me, I start turning around it to find MY OWN frame. I work on myself and on the city at the same time.”
“It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day without another familiar face staring back. It turns your heart into a purposeless muscle.”
“It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.”

Source : "The Literary Life". Book by Anatole France, 1888-1892.
“Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?”
“Have you seen the snow leopard? No! Isn't that wonderful?”

Source : Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.269, Penguin
“Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.”
“To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.”
“For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.”

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