"My home shall be open for the sun and the wind and the voices of the sea - like a Greek temple - and light, light, light everywhere!"

-- Axel Munthe

#Home Quotes #Light Quotes #Wind Quotes

“I always acted like a star long before I was one”
“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”
“My father could talk about the Romany way of life and its culture. He could talk about freedom and the Scottish spirit. But that was all he could talk about. I was desperate for someone to talk to but there was just nobody there.”
“In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the sole exception of specialists in the field, virtually everyone senses that anything which offers less than this passion play remains philosophically trivial. Cultural anthropologists suggest the appealing term 'deep play' for the comprehensively absorbing preoccupations of human beings. From the perspective of a theory of the practising life we would add: the deep plays are those which are moved by the heights.”

Source : Peter Sloterdijk (2014). “You Must Change Your Life”, p.24, John Wiley & Sons
“I still say if the ball is there to be won I will go for it, whether with my head or whatever, and if it means us scoring or stopping a goal, I won't think twice.”
“I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like a crazy person, that's when things go wrong.”
“I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.”
“You have to take chances - working in film is a mixture of luck, talent, and ability to take the risk. You have to be optimistic. You can't be a pessimistic person.”

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