Marshall Berman famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world - and at the same time that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.
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We come from ruins, but we're not ruined,
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Whoever you are, or want to be, you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.
-- Marshall Berman
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When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
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The essence of spirituality is the duty to live to its full the glorious destiny of being human. The purpose of religion should be to empower all people in this adventure of living with dignity and fulfillment.
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I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.
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When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the result of something else. There is value in just being oneself, it is not because of something one does or doesn't do. It is there in the beginning, when we are children, but slowly it gets lost.
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Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.
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There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.
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Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.
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After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.
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The future is a bright as the promises of God.
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Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken.
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