"You must come to terms with the reality that nothing outside ourselves, be it people or things is actually responsible for our happiness."

-- Mary Edwards Walker

#Happiness Quotes #Reality Quotes #People Quotes

“Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.”
“I hate nothing more than sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects. So allow me to be honest ?and tell the truth about our age and its people.”

Source : August Sander (1996). “August Sander: "In photography there are no unexplained shadows!" : an exhibition organised by the August Sander Archive, Kulturstiftung Stadtsparkasse, Cologne, and shown at the National Portrait Gallery, London”, Natl Portrait Gallery Pubns
“When boxers fight 3 minutes (per round), they have 3 minutes to box, so they are not in a hurry to show the judges who is winning. They have time to slow down their feet. In 2 minute (round) fights, they don't have time to slow down their feet. It's a fast speed because they only have 2 minutes.”
“For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.”
“How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank.”
“To me, every fundamentalist Muslim, no matter how peaceable in his own behavior, is part of a murderous movement and is thus, in some fashion, a foot soldier in the war that bin Laden has launched against civilization.”

Source : "Bin Laden Is a Fundamentalist". National Review Online, October 22, 2001.
“You can bear anything if it is not your fault.”
“Death is just the moment that your hourglass runs out of sand. That's it. It happens to everyone eventually. All any of us gets to decide is where the sand falls.”

You may also like:

Clara Barton
Nursing
Dorothea Dix
Nurse
Elizabeth Blackwell
Medical Doctor
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Activist
Harriet Tubman
Activist
Victoria Woodhull
Political leader
Walt Whitman
Poet
Rose O'Neal Greenhow
Susan B. Anthony
Women's rights activist