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The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself.
Sep 18, 2025
God ever works with those who work with will.
If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?
We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.
Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself
Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.
Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.
If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.
Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.
The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
The goal of the martial arts is not for the destruction of an opponent, but rather for self-growth and self-perfection. The practice of a martial art should be a practice of love - for the preservation of life, for the preservation of body, and for the preservation of family and friends.
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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