Category: Quotes

  • Leibovitz on Nature

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    Reading Time: 1 minuteNature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy – your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself. — Annie Leibovitz

  • Throwing Stones At Lions

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    Reading Time: 1 minuteA person only gets to throw one stone at a lion. — Mingyur Dorje Rinpoche

  • McCarthy on Critics

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    Reading Time: 1 minuteIt’s easy to take a swipe. And I’m like, just go the other way. Build it up. Put a little love and kindness in the world, and it does good things when you do that. — Melissa McCarthy

  • Jobs on Settling

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    Reading Time: 1 minuteYour work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t…

  • Standing Bear on Nature

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    Reading Time: 1 minuteThe old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too. So, he kept his children close to nature’s softening influence. — Standing Bear, Sioux Chief

  • Poehler on Failure

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    Reading Time: 1 minuteThe question you have to ask yourself is:   ‘How do you want to fail? Do you want to fail in a way that feels like it respects your tastes and value system?’ — Amy Poehler

  • Obama on Justice

    Reading Time: 1 minutePath to justice is one all of us must travel together. — Barack Obama

  • Standing Bear on Wilderness

    Reading Time: 1 minuteWe did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, the winding streams with tangled growth, as ‘wild’. Only to the white man was nature a ‘wilderness’ and only to him was it ‘infested’ with ‘wild’ animals and ‘savage’ people. To us it was tame. Earth was bountiful and…