"What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Book Quotes #Eye Quotes

“And when you're poor, you grow up fast.”
“It is one thing to have sin alarmed only by convictions, and another to have it crucified by converting grace. Many, because they have been troubled in conscience for their sins, think well of their case, miserably mistaking conviction for conversion.”

Source : Joseph Alleine (1824). “An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners”, p.97
“Just as a fisherman cannot catch fish unless his line is in the water, a wildlife photographer cannot shoot great wildlife images unless he or she is out there with camera in hand and the knowledge of what to do then the 'magnificent moment' occurs.”
“Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the hours And the farmers make half-answers.”
“If I can listen to what he can tell me, if I can understand how it seems to him; if I can see its personal meaning for him, if I can sense the emotional flavor which it has for him, then I will be releasing potent forces of change in him.”
“We live only to dance. If living were not an essential prerequisite, we would abstain.”
“The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.”
“It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.”

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