"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed."

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Source : Goodbye to Berlin "Berlin Diary" (1939)

Christopher Isherwood

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Hair Quotes

“Patience is a strength, not a weakness; and if by practicing patience we stop retaliating to harm and criticism, people will gradually come to understand that our real nature is very special”
“The basis of all education is to learn by doing.”

Source : Donald Anderson Laird, Eleanor Childs Leonard Laird (1947). “The Technique of Getting Things Done: Rules for Directing Will Power, from the Lives of the World's Leaders”
“The work is more important than the reward.”
“The church doesnâ€™t have a mission; there is a mission, and it has the church.”
“We already have the material means to eradicate deep poverty and thereby eradicate hunger. We have the material means to begin the tremendous clean up of the environmental messes we've created. We have, I believe, the psychological, emotional and spiritual means to create a world without war. We have the material means to create a world in which unnecessary human suffering has been drastically diminished. My vision for the future is that we do those things. And I think we will.”
“I know that there is a difference of opinion, but we stand united with the Standing Rock Nation in wanting the most highly militarized blockade in North Dakota history to be lifted, because it's functioning as a successful economic sanction.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.”
“Patience and perseverance are necessary in autosuggestion, as well as in everything else.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 461, 1895.

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