"I just love thinking about what makes people tick"

-- Jessica Ennis

#Love Quotes #Family Quotes #Happiness Quotes

“To desire a state is to have it.”
“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”

Source : Sylvia Townsend Warner (1978). “Lolly Willowes: or, The loving huntsman”, Charles River Books
“[The photographer's task] is to describe the existing light... Chances are, if you believe the light, you're going to believe that the things photographed existed in the world.”
“[Her life with Tony Curtis in 1961:] We were beginning the climb to a higher plateau. Acceptance. Recognition. Status. Security. We only had to hold on and hope the thin air didn't make us dizzy and cause a tumble. We also needed to remember that the inside had to ascend together with the outside.”
“Wisdom, sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols.”

Source : Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Sacred Poems”, p.118
“... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods and die without realizing their spiritual wealth.”
“If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt, they're lying. It was like I'd spent the night with an axe murderer.”
“You see, with [designing]weapons, it is like a woman who bears children. For months she carries her baby and thinks about it. A designer does much the same thing with a prototype. I felt like a mother - always proud. It is a special feeling, as if you were awarded with a special award. I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.”

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