"Adversity removes the friends prosperity has harvested."

-- C.J. Langenhoven

#Adversity Quotes #Prosperity Quotes

“Burton, though an infidel, made it his business to investigate thoroughly every religion. Know a man's faith , and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half.”

Source : Philip Jose Farmer (2010). “Riverworld: Including To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat”, p.174, Macmillan
“The other day someone left a piece of plasticine in my dressing room. I didn't know what to make of it.”
“The silence is there within us. What we have to do is to enter into it, to become silent, to become the silence. The purpose of meditation and the challenge of meditation is to allow ourselves to become silent enough to allow this interior silence to emerge. Silence is the language of the spirit.”
“I hardly even leave my own house.”
“I think the '70s are always inspiring to me. I was born then, so I have a lot of memories about how my parents were and what kinds of movies I was watching.”

Source : "Frida Giannini: A Fashionable Life". Interview with Anamaria Wilson, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 14, 2011.
“The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.”
“How shall the heart be reconciled / To its feast of losses?”
“Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical approach, by the selection of the subject matterand by his decision as to the exact cinematic instant of exposure, he is blending the variables of interpretation into an emotional whole.”

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