"We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do."

-- Maya Angelou

#Life Quotes #Believe Quotes #Home Quotes

“The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and space, pattern and texture, motion and mood, everything except composition.”
“Donâ€™t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full of botanists and horticulturists. All you have to do is design. You donâ€™t have to be a botanist; you donâ€™t have to be a bulldozer driver; you donâ€™t have to be a fence builder; you donâ€™t have to be an architect. What the designer has to do is look at the relationships.”
“...pretty much everyone hates high school. It's a measure of your humanity, I suspect. If you enjoyed high school, you were probably a psychopath or a cheerleader. Or possibly both. Those things aren't mutually exclusive, you know. I've tried to block out the memory of my high school years, but no matter how hard you try, it's always with you, like an unwanted hitchhiker. Or herpes. I assume...”
“I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man.”
“As tough as it sometimes looks on the front end, it's easier to do right than undo wrong.”
“Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers.”

Source : Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”
“I was very dramatic as a kid. I loved to entertain. I was taking my bathing suits and painting them black and putting sparkles on them because I thought I was going to be on stage.”
“You must take a year off, one of these days, before youâ€™re old and tired and weighed down by responsibility. Go away somewhere, and read. Read all the important books. Educate yourself, then youâ€™ll see the world in a different way.”

Source : Helon Habila (2010). “Oil on Water”, p.181, Penguin UK

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