"We have this sense that there's something bigger than us, above and beyond. If you take away the idea of God, you need to replace it with a shared moral code. Otherwise, everybody becomes very self-centred and materialistic."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Jonathan Trigell

#Self Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Needs Quotes

“It's really great to do one piece, "I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face," my dad developed in 1956, when he was 20 years old, and it's great to do that piece again now and see that it still really works as well as it ever did.”
“An antique is anything old with class.”
“The world is unable to provide any account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same.”

Source : David Bentley Hart (2013). “The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss”, p.80, Yale University Press
“The best places to live, work, and visit are those places that are willing to uphold their standards in the face of pressure to allow lowest common denominator development... Successful communities understand that when they say no to development that is contrary to the long-term health of their community, they will almost always get better development in its place.”
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside”
“The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.'”
“..the writer's obsession - the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision.”
“I don't like black. You wear black when you're miserable.”

Source : "Loulou de la Falaise obituary" by Veronica Horwell, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2011.

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