"Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens."

“One of the things that I most believe in is the compose and wait philosophy of photography. It’s a very satisfying, almost spiritual way to photograph. Life isn't’ knocking you around, life isn't controlling you. You have picked your place, you’ve picked your scene, you’ve picked your light, you’ve done all the decision making and you are waiting for the moment to come to you.”

“Now I see that the journey was never meant to lead to some new and improved version of me; that it has always been about coming home to who I already am.”

Source : Katrina Kenison (2013). “Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment”, p.152, Hachette UK

“... rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on faith and courage and the ability to learn on the job.”

Source : Cornelia Stratton Parker (1934). “Wanderer's Circle”

“In other words, let's give our young women the right weapons to fight with as they charge naked into battle, instead of ordering them to get back in the house and put some ***** clothes on.”

“The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path high above rocky ground. On one side we have the descent into animalism, on the other a godhead delusion. Both pulling at us, both tempting. But without these forces tugging at your psyche, stirring it into conflict, you can never love. They awaken us, you see, these warring sides, they arouse our passion.”

Source : "The Reality Dysfunction". Book by Peter F. Hamilton, October 8, 2008.

“I wonder where a guy, an everyday Joe like myself can find a little action.”

“The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs least is no government at all.”

Source : United States Magazine and Democratic Review, 1 Oct. 1837 See RalphWaldo Emerson 29; Shipley 1; Thoreau 3

“He hadn't told me everything, but I'd left him for dead. I guess we were just about even.”