Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you.
There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.
Everything in life responds to the song of the heart.
Your miracles are an inside job. Go there to create the magic that you seek in your life.
If you don’t know where your heart is, look where your mind goes when it wanders.
The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you’re walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That’s the moment you may be starting to get it right.
Normal zu sein, ist das Ideal der Mittelmäßigen.
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
My camera is a witness. It holds a light up for my subjects to help them feel their own essence, and gives them the courage to collaborate in recording these revelations.
The longer you go without failure, the harder it will feel.
If [more] information was the answer, then we’d all be billionaires with perfect abs.
Der edle Mensch erkennt in allem Gott, der gemeine Mensch sieht nur die Form, nicht den Geist.
Die Monumente der Bourgeoisie gelte es, vor ihrem Verfall als Ruinen zu erkennen.
Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.
I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: Try to please everybody all the time.
Our bodies have formed themselves in delicate reciprocity with the manifold textures, sounds, and shapes of an animate earth […] We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.
To get stronger, you have to lift heavier weights.
Der Maler soll nicht bloß malen, was er vor sich sieht, sondern auch was er in sich sieht. Sieht er aber nichts in sich, so unterlasse er auch zu malen, was er vor sich sieht.
Deyr fé,
deyja frændur,
deyr sjálfur ið sama.
En orðstír
deyr aldregi
hveim er sér góðan getur.
The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
As the crickets‘ soft autumn hum
is to us
so are we to the trees
as are they
to the rocks and the hills
Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.
I don’t count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count.
Hat man sein Warum des Lebens, so verträgt man sich fast mit jedem Wie.
Believe one who knows: you will find something greater in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.
For the 99 percent of the time we’ve been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the fine, small details of our world. Deep inside, we still have a longing to be reconnected with the nature that shaped our imagination, our language, our song and dance, our sense of the divine.
You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
The camera is the least important element in photography.
Paint the spirit of the bird in flight rather than its feathers.
Joy comes in ordinary moments… We risk missing out when we get too busy chasing the extraordinary.
Life doesn’t happen to you, it happens for you.
It’s not the sun that goes down, but the world that continues to turn.
Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first;
Be not discouraged – keep on – there are divine things, well envelop’d; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
There are two times to make a portrait. Now or when it’s too late.
As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Let me photograph you in this light In case it is the last time That we might be exactly like we were…
The more I practice, the luckier I get.
One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
The photos we produce are simply a byproduct of the experience that we had the opportunity to give someone.
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
The toughest things in life are the most rewarding.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
On your last day on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.
The only difference between excitement and fear is your attitude about it.
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
The key to being true to yourself is knowing who you are.
Attuning yourself to your gut is the most powerful skill you can develop.
All of man’s mistakes arise because he imagines that he walks upon a lifeless thing, whereas his footsteps imprint themselves in a flesh full of vital power.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
Niemand von uns Menschen hat das Recht, zu einem Mitmenschen oder einem Tier zu sagen:
Entweder du machst was ich sage, oder ich werde dir wehtun…
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Great Minds Discuss Ideas, Average Minds Discuss Events, Small Minds Discuss People.
Animals are connected to all other living things far more than we will ever be. They understand interrelatedness and interconnection. We, on the other hand, have forgotten.
Ein glänzender Stein am Wegrand.
So klein – und doch so schön.
Ich hob ihn auf. Er war so schön!
Ich legte ihn wieder zurück und ging weiter.
Islandpferde:
Einem jeden, der sie reitet, naht sein Glücksstern sich im Raum. Leid verweht, das Leben gleitet leicht dahin – ein schöner Traum.
Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.
Jeder dumme Junge kann einen Käfer zertreten. Aber alle Professoren der Welt können keinen herstellen.
Beurteilen Sie einen Menschen, der sein Pferd und seinen Hund liebt, immer vorteilhaft.
Die Größe und den moralischen Fortschritt einer Nation kann man daran messen, wie sie ihre Tiere behandeln.
We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. […] For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.
You can always tell who the strong women are. They are the ones you see building one another up, instead of tearing each other down.
What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it.
he end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilisation.
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
Life teaches you everything you need to know if you’re willing to learn.
Everything is animate, everything moves. It’s just that some things (like granite boulders) move much slower than other things (like crows or crickets).
Is not the sky a father and the earth a mother, and are not all living things with feet or wings or roots their children?
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
The greatest wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.
Wissen Sie, wir haben keine Beziehung mehr zur Natur. Wir umgeben uns mit Beton und Zement und haben uns von unserem Planeten ausgeschlossen. Wenn Sie die Möglichkeit haben, ihn wiederzuentdecken, dann werden Sie die Tiere nicht wie Fremde betrachten, sondern wie Zeitgenossen.
