We have, each one of us, been entrusted with one life, made up of days and hours and … - Shauna Niequist

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I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.

Shauna Niequist

We have, each one of us, been entrusted with one life, made up of days and hours and minutes. We're spending them according to our values, whether or not we admit it.

Admit, Hours, Made, Minutes

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I believe still today what I have always believed: that God is good, that the world He made is extraordinary, and that His comfort is like nothing else on earth.

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In many cases, change is not a function of life's cruelty but instead a function of God's graciousness.

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When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of God.

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Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter's deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire. Our tree-lined streets are set ablaze, our kitchens filled with the smells of nostalgia: apples bubbling into sauce, roasting squash, cinnamon, nutmeg, cider, warmth itself. The leaves as they spark into wild color just before they die are the world's oldest performance art, and everything we see is celebrating one last violently hued hurrah before the black and white silence of winter.

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Sometimes the happiest ending isn't the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are

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Annie Leibovitz

I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.

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Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.

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Technique should be taught, not as an end in itself, but as something related to individual expression, as a means toward an end. One cannot separate technique from expression. There is only expression.

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John Carradine

Milan. What a beautiful place to die.

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