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"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration."
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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."
"Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously."
"Some persons can't accept the truth, due to their inability to let go of their own perceptions."
"When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'."
"Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, and doing as you say you would do."
"Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied."
"Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy."
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"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."
"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment."
"It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators."
"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed."
"When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without."
"There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit."
"Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation."
"To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things."
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