"If we continually let go of the moments, we let go of who we are and we lose ourselves."

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Source : Matthew Knisely (2014). “Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World”, p.23, Thomas Nelson Inc

Matthew Knisely

#Letting Go Quotes #Who We Are Quotes #Moments Quotes

“I'm not alive. People believe memories grow vague, are erased by time, since nothing endures against the passage of time. That's the difference; time does not pass over me, over us. It doesn't erase anything, doesn't undo it. I'm not a live. I died in Auschwitz but no one knows it.”
“I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of creativity, the atrophy of imagination. I have opinions but no Belief System (B.S.)”
“She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time”
“In defense of games, I want to point out that the writing in plays, including everything by August Strindberg and The Lion King, is 100% pure crap. So we're doing better than they are even though they have the benefit of mostly not being about space marines.”
“Tragedy, as you know, is always a fait accompli, whereas terror always has to do with anticipation, with man's recognition of hisown negative potential--with his sense of what he is capable of.”
“I paved the way for a lot of white artists now that donâ€™t have to deal with the stigma of being a white artist. I donâ€™t think that people would be as open for non-African American artists like that if it I didnâ€™t take a lot of the slack for them.”
“Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.”

Source : Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”
“I'm pretty transparent and very honest almost to a fault. I don't hide anything or sugarcoat anything. I don't play politics because that means I'd have to lie. I'm just forthright in my whole being.”

Source : Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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