"There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given."

-- Leon Kass

#World Quotes #Ancient Quotes #Given Quotes

“We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.”
“Intuition is soul guidance, appearing naturally in man during those instants when his mind is calm.”
“What is most important subject you have to learn in life? To learn how to love. This is the challenge that life offers you: to learn bow to love. Not just to accumulate information without knowing what to do with it. But through that love, let that information bear fruit.”
“Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it”

Source : Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Living to Tell the Tale”, p.6, Penguin UK
“Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.”
“Probably "I love my life" would be something I would say out loud to the planet - just that positive affirmation. And also, "Life is short," "Don't take yourself so seriously," and "Lighten the f - k up." And if that offends you, you really need to lighten the f - k up.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I don't know where it's all going to lead. I have no idea where I'm going. I would just like to be happy.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The reality we can put into words is never reality itself.”

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