Henri Cartier-Bresson quote: "The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box."

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON

You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER

Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON

They caught us easing up. We got careless just long enough for them to take advantage within the 18-...
JENNIFER TRUMAN

Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.
VICTOR SHAMAS

Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW

Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES

Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN

The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

I do not want a player who is a perfect man and has a fantastic character. That’s the kind of guy ...
JOSé MOURINHO

Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON

I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C.

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES

Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE

Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.

On a motorcycle, I learned to let go of the vast uncertainty and focus instead on what is in front o...
LILY BROOKS-DALTON

I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu...
C. JOYBELL C.

The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS

I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will...
EDWARD R. MURROW

All that the spider needs to complete its web is step taking
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS...

Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES

If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS

The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS

Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.
EMM COLE

We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can.
KAREN TODD SCARPULLA

Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put f...
SHAKTI GAWAIN

Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put f...
MAHATMA GANDHI

The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

The moment your dreams and your revelation take a special direction while your plans and actions tak...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY

Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY

no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK

Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us.
AMIT RAY

Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will chang...
JAMES CLAVELL

Write to Say something,
Say to Make something,
Make to Be something.
SHASHIDHAR SA

Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you...
TERENCE T. GORSKI

An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
KILROY J. OLDSTER

The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL

I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS

Mindfulness is not entering into another planet. It is making you good at what you do. It is restori...
AMIT RAY

We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL

In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL

The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won’t miss the one with your name on it.
GINA GREENLEE

If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us...
ANTHONY LICCIONE

Starting today, must forget what gone yesterday,appreciate what remains today & look forward what ca...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA

According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a ...
PEMA CHODRON

You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a...
KILROY J. OLDSTER

When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly to start by assuming that it is impossib...
LEWIS N. ROE

Using the scientific knowledge that we currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b...
LEWIS N. ROE

Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT

Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.
SHARON SALZBERG

The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You ha...
CARLTON CUSE

I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
ELLEN HOPKINS

I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANH

You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER

Life is a journey, not a destination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe...
THICH NHAT HANH

She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress...
SARAH JIO

Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE

We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE

They take these cute pictures of their kids and then give up on them because simple things, like put...
DAN SHAPIRO

Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER

To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS...

The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI

If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS...

i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL

I have better understanding how difficult and complex life can be, fortunately I know when not to ta...
SHELLIE PALMER

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.
DAVID FINCHER

Each Time you step off your path and give someone an act of kindness...then your road to Happiness j...
DONNA A. FAVORS

Enjoy today. It is one of the "good old days" you will miss in the future!
ETTA SAWYERR

In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

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The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

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