"I don't want you to understand the details. To feel how it feels, you just have to be on the ground with the people. That's where photojournalists have a lot of magic."

-- Shaul Schwarz

#People Quotes #Magic Quotes #Details Quotes

“I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.”
“The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.”
“For me, I was raped in my own dorm bed. Since then, it has basically become fraught for me, and I feel like I've carried the weight of what happened there with me everywhere since then.”

Source : "Columbia University Student Will Drag Her Mattress Around Campus Until Her Rapist Is Gone" by Sarah Barness, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2014.
“I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.”
“My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.”
“Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting.”
“When we forgive someone, we do not forget the hurtful act, as if forgetting came along with the forgiveness package, the way strings come with a violin. Begin with the basics. If you forget, you will not forgive at all. You can never forgive people for things you have forgotten about. You need to forgive precisely because you have not forgotten what someone did; your memory keeps the pain alive long after the hurt has stopped. Remembering is the storage of pain. It is why you need to be healed in the first place.”
“When I say do your best, I mean your very best. You are capable of so much more.”

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