"One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness"

-- Miriam

#Japan Quotes #Delicate Quotes #Loveliness Quotes

“If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.”

Source : "David Cameron claims welfare reform will save in the long run" by Paul Owen, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2010.
“Sometimes, there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it. Like my heart's going to cave in.”

Source : "Fictional character: Ricky Fitts". "American Beauty", www.imdb.com. 1999.
“Lord, make me less like Jonah and more like Jesus. Save me from being the kind of person who cares more about my comfort, my reputation, and my success than I do about the people You are calling me to serve. Help me to keep all of my dreams on Your altar and be ready at all times to respond with faith and obedience to Your call.”
“If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.”

Source : Eve Arnold (1976). “The Unretouched Woman”, Random House (NY)
“Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.”
“Among environmentalists sharing two or three beers, the notion is quite common that if only some calamity could wipe out the entire human race, other species might once again have a chance.”
“I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story, but you have to make up the story.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I'm not trying to create an aesthetic that's my own; I'm trying to create a way understanding things through drawing and painting. That's the common thread. Things can look different, but that's not what's important. What's important is the process is the same, the ideas are the same, I'm using the same building blocks, but they're different. The larger framework is the same; it's the pieces that change. For me, it's about these different elements, but you're still fitting them together into sentences, words, paragraphs, and stories.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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