"Let’s not only take great photos, but let’s make great photos with our lives."

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Source : Matthew Knisely (2014). “Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World”, p.106, Thomas Nelson Inc

Matthew Knisely

#Our Lives Quotes

“We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.”
“The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.”
“There's always been violence in movies, and there will always be violence in movies. Whether it lends to the one psychotic that's out there, thinking the worst thoughts you could possibly thing, is always going to be a mystery.”
“Rich women are not too put upon by their children. You don't have to do all the things for a child that those women who had to stay at home did. My Ann had a French governess who took care of her until she was twelve years old and went off to boarding school.”
“If time is a staircase, reality is a Slinky.”

Source : "The Iron Law of Stardom" by Louis Menand, www.newyorker.com. March 24, 1997.
“Grandchildren can be annoying - how many times can you go: "And the cow goes moo and the pig goes oink"? It's like talking to a supermodel.”
“Alle Befriedigung, oder was man gemeinhin GluÂ«Â ck nennt, ist eigentlich und wesentlich immer nur negativ und durchaus nie positiv. All satisfaction, or what iscommonlycalled happiness, is really and essentially always negative only, and never positive.”
“I've produced a couple of films and really enjoyed starting it from the very beginning and seeing it all the way through to the end; that was very gratifying.”

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