Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after. ~ C.Perkins

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You get what you tolerate…

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Time to wake up and smell the coffee…

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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton

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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. ~Charles Caleb Colton

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Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire. ~Thomas Fuller

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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. ~Michel de Montaigne

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Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it. ~Sai Baba

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a pair of lazy oysters at the end of April – Shuck’n Shack at Carolina beach…

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An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity. ~Saadi

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Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them. ~Bob Dylan

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A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography. Federico Fellini

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Raleigh angles…

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With age – comes beauty…

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Organic and not…

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If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there. ~Lewis Carroll

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In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. ~Aaron Rose

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Learn to let go – it truly is water under the bridge…. and life goes on.

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“You can’t always sit in your corner of the forest and wait for people to come to you… you have to go to them sometimes.” ~Winnie the Pooh

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Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident – It is as common as life. ~Henry David Thoreau

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It’s always been and always will be the same in the world: The horse does the work and the coachman is tipped. ~Author Unknown

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I hear it calling me….

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My soul is in the sky. ~William Shakespeare

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