Paul Doughty Bartlett famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

  • Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.

  • A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

  • Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.

  • Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.

  • For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.

  • Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

  • From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.

  • I wouldn’t change any of my reactions

  • For me, once the film is out, it belongs to the audience, and I have to be open to any reaction that comes from it.