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“I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.”
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“My wife Ann and I had been digging during the day, transplanting lilies from the front of this abandoned farmhouse back down the road to where we live. We finished. She was tired and laid in the grass. I took a picture. The house is now gone. The walnut trees have been bulldozed and burned. I saw this picture the other day for the first time in years and realized how photographing life within a hundred yards of my front porch had helped me focus on everything I cared about.”
Source : "10 Photographers Share ‘An Image That Changed Everything’ And The Stories Behind Them" by Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.
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“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”
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“The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.”
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“The eternal sea of politics is best left to politicians.”
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“The people who came to hear me perform or to buy my records were not the type who would be offended. But I gather that there were other people who were offended.”
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“Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.”
Source : Allan Gurganus (2010). “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All: A Novel”, p.399, Vintage
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“Stay a little while longer, and let everyone congratulate you - including the ones who clearly don't want to: in fact, especially the ones who clearly don't want to. You don't have to say anything but 'thank you”
Source : Tsoknyi Rinpoche (2012). “Open Heart, Open Mind: A Guide to Inner Transformation”, p.237, Random House