"Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable."

“We pray with our hands and often communicate with them. We use them to eat, work, and make love. We employ them as marvelously sophisticated instruments of flexibility and strength, and when they are damaged, we anguish.”

Source : Keith L. Moore (1992). “Clinically oriented anatomy”

“We all get so caught up in the moment of what we're doing every day, it's hard to hit that reset button and get pulled away from all that and see life from a different perspective.”

“With spirit we are all children of the cosmos; Without it we are orphaned and adrift.”

“We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.”

“Leave a door open long enough, a cat will enter. Leave food, it will stay.”

“I just couldn't move. History had me glued to the seat.”

Source : "Before Rosa Parks, A Teenager Defied Segregation On An Alabama Bus". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. March 2, 2015.

“You can't live the rest of your life carrying a pain because your parents couldn't get along. I choose to spend my life crafting a joy.”

“As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following photography for the love of it, and not merely for financial reasons. As the name implies, an amateur is one who works for love.”

Source : Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”