"There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs"

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Adam Phillips

#Needs Quotes #Belief Quotes #Destroying Quotes

“He who loathes war, and will do everything in his power to avert it, but who will, in the last extremity, encounter its perils, from love of country and of home--who is willing to sacrifice himself and all that is dear to him in life, to promote the well-being of his fellow-man, will ever receive a worthy homage.”
“I have seen white settlers in Africa who had sworn that they would never sit down to table with those "smelly blacks" sit down quite happily with half-nude tribesmen once a country achieves independence. It is the context of power which changes behavior and transmutes antipathy into sympathy.”

Source : Lewis Nkosi (1983). “Home and exile and other selections”, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
“God will not let me get the blessing without asking. Today I am setting my face to fast and pray for enlightenment and refreshing. Until I can get up to the measure of at least two hours in pure prayer every day, I shall not be contented. Meditation and reading besides.”
“Although the Jeffersonian Law ("All men are created equal") is the first article of the American faith, the facts of American life have demonstrated for some time now that it is an irksome faith to live by.”

Source : Alistair Cooke (2014). “America Observed: From the 1940s to the 1980s”, p.141, Open Road Media
“If you want to know the religion of a man, do not look at how much he prays and fasts, rather, look at how he treats people.”
“I get mad when people are against pot.”
“I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on the number one live comedy show in Puerto Rico. I told my parents, 'I'm going to New York to become a performer.' And I left.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.”

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