"Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects honestly in terms of their relative meaning within our lives. . . ."

-- Audre Lorde

#Empowering Quotes #Joy Quotes #Lenses Quotes

“If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would.”
“You've been hurt before, I can see it in your eyes. You try to smile it away, some things you can't disguise.”
“It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.”
“Have you ever thought about what protects our hearts? Just a cage of rib bones and other various parts. So it's fairly simple to cut right through the mess, And to stop the muscle that makes us confess”

Source : Song: Breakable, 2007
“As long as I'm having fun, I'm not quitting.”
“I think this year we'll open up 900 gross, we're closing some, so the net count is lower, but the 900 are spread all over the place. Some of the closures are relocations, where you're moving it to another place in the marketplace.”
“In a world of disturbing images, the general body of photography is bland, dealing complacently with nature and treating our preconceptions as insights. Strange, private worlds rarely slip past our guard.”

Source : Henry Holmes Smith, James Enyeart (1986). “Henry Holmes Smith: collected writings 1935-1985”, Center for Creative Photography
“I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.”

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