"A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety."

-- Bertrand Russell

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“In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and a visionary. Patient accumulation of facts and then speculation about their meaning is the nature of authorship in both mediums.”
“In this uncertain world, the food is disposable. It is the wrappings that are permanent.”
“Taoism ... is the Religion of the Tao, a term meaning Path or Way, but denoting in this peculiar case the way, course or movement of the Universe, her processes and methods. In other words, Taoism is the Religion of Heaven and Earth, of the Cosmos, of the World or Nature in the broadest sense of these words. Hence we may call it Naturism.”

Source : Jan Jakob Maria de Groot (1892). “The Religious System of China: Its Ancient Forms, Evolution, History and Present Aspects, Manners, Custom and Social Institutions Connected Therewith”, p.66, Brill Archive
“The father spent his time talking and thinking of religion. He proclaimed himself an agnostic and was so absorbed in destroying the ideas of God that had crept into the minds of his neighbors that he never saw God manifesting himself in the little child that, half forgotten, lived here and there on the bounty of her dead mother's relatives.”
“It's not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character.”
“When you have a pile of bills that you have no idea how you are going to pay, you cannot focus on the bills, because you will continue to attract more bills. You have to find a way that works for you to focus on prosperity, despite the bills around you.”
“I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it.”
“In a revolution, one triumphs or dies.”

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