Siegfried Lenz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You mortgage yourself sometimes. You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent.
Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.
The heart sometimes leaps forward when the head tells us to be still. When this happens, patience is clearly called for as we seek to find a proper balance between impulse and discretion.
I've become more introverted as I've got older. I used to be an outgoing person who joked around a lot, but as the amount of energy I expend by sharing my music has increased, I like to balance it by spending time by myself and recuperating.
A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence".
It's so embarrassing to receive an award for doing what you should be doing.
But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.
For some reason, I was born without a sense of embarrassment or shame.
I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.
God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.

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