"A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life."

-- Chaim Potok

#Men Quotes #Given Quotes

“I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.”
“Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it without sugar - very swank: gives the impression you have lived in the East.”
“I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.”
“[H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright during the final minutes of a desperately close promotion campaign?”
“Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.”

Source : Philip Rieff (1979). “Freud: The Mind of the Moralist”, p.12, University of Chicago Press
“I can't stop pointing to the beauty.”
“When 20,000 people applaud you as you walk out to do your job, it should be an inspiration.”
“Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business.”

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