"One of the things I learned on the street was to trust life and to keep hands off of it, and that feeling continues in the rest of the works that I do, the portrait, the landscapes, or any interest that I have. Things are good enough as they are, there's no reason to tamper with them."

-- Joel Meyerowitz

#Hands Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Portraits Quotes

“Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.”
“If you are not financially independent by the time you are forty or fifty, it doesn't mean that you are living in the wrong country or at the wrong time. It simply means that you have the wrong plan.”
“A flower more sacred than far-seen success Perfumes my solitary path; I find Sweet compensation in my humbleness, And reap the harvest of a quiet mind.”

Source : John Townsend Trowbridge (1903). “My Own Story: With Recollection of Noted Persons”
“The value of getting to your goals lives not in reaching the goal but what the talents/strengths/capabilities the journey reveals to you.”
“Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.”
“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.”
“Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.”
“But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.”

Source : Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.52, Broadview Press

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