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English is not my first language; photography is. - Julio Etchart

I definitely believe in god. How can you look at anything and not be overwhelmed by the miraculousness of it? - Chris Martin, all-theist

I have no idea what I am doing, but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm. - Woody Allen

Ich lebe mein Leben in wachsenden Ringen, die sich über die Dinge ziehn. Ich werde den letzten vielleicht nicht vollbringen, aber versuchen will ich ihn. Ich kreise um Gott, um den uralten Turm, und ich kreise jahrtausendelang; und ich weiß noch nicht: bin ich ein Falke, ein Sturm oder ein großer Gesang. - Rainer Maria Rilke

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. "You know what I say to people when I hear they're writing anti-war books?" "No. What do you say, Harrison Starr?" "I say, 'Why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?'" ** "And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death." I went to the University of Chicago for a while after the Second World War. I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still. Another thing they taught was that nobody was ridiculous or bad or disgusting. Shortly before my father died, he said to me, 'You know - you never wrote a story with a villain in it.' I told him that was one of the things I learned in college after the war. All moments past, present, and future, al...

"Better not give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart." - Finnick,  Mockingjay

...sometimes, if you receive an answer, the question might be taken away. - Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless A beach house isn't just real estate. It's a state of mind...A beach house...doesn't even have to be on a beach. Though the best ones are. We all like to congregate...at boundary conditions...Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where body meets mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other. - Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction. - Oprah Winfrey

How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell; Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. - Albany, King Lear

Humans of New York

They were not the same eyes with which he had last looked out at this particular scene, and the brain which interpreted the images the eyes resolved was not the same brain. There had been no surgery involved, just the continual wrenching of experience. - Douglas Adams, So Long and Thanks for all the Fish

Wandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal - by Naomi Shihab Nye Spelling - by Margaret Atwood

There's really no such thing as "the voiceless". There are only the deliberately silenced, and the preferably unheard. - Arundhati Roy

An SEP is something we can't see, or don't see, or our brain doesn't let us see, because we think that it's somebody else's problem. (...) The brain just edits it out, it's like a blind spot. (...) it relies on people's predisposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain. - Douglas Adams, The Life, the Universe and Everything

"'Out Of The Past' was the name of the store, and its products consisted of memories: what was prosaic and even vulgar to one generation had been transmuted by the mere passing of years to a status at once magical and also camp." - the first line of Gil's manuscript in Midnight in Paris The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence. - Gertrude Stein (character), Midnight in Paris

I want a red dress. I want it flimsy and cheap. I want it too tight. I want to wear it until someone tears it off me. I want it sleeveless and backless, this dress, So no one has to guess What’s underneath. I want to walk down the street, Past Thrifty’s and the hardware store, With all those keys glittering in the window. Past Mr. and Mrs. Wong selling day-old doughnuts in their café, Past the Guerra brothers slinging pigs from the truck and onto the dolly, Hoisting the slick snouts over their shoulders. I want to walk like I’m the only woman on earth and I can have my pick. I want that red dress bad. I want it to confirm Your worst fears about me; To show you how little I care about you, Or anything except what I want. When I find it, I’ll pull that garment from its hanger like I’m choosing a body; To carry me into this world, Through the birth-cries and the love-cries too, And I’ll wear it like bones, like skin. It’ll be the goddamned dress They bury me in. ...

To summarize: it is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem. - Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe