"This world is painted on a wild dark metal"

-- Peter Matthiessen

#Dark Quotes #World Quotes #This World Quotes

“You can live and learn, but you cannot learn to live. So just live.”
“Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude.”
“We must develop a better sense of responsibilty towards our total environment”
“My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I believe there is something of the divine mystery in everything that exists. We can see it sparkle in a sunflower or a poppy. We sense more of the unfathomable mystery in a butterfly that flutters from a twig--or in a goldfish swimming in a bowl. But we are closest to God in our own soul. Only there can we become one with the greatest mystery of life. In truth, at very rare moments we can experience that we ourselves are that divine mystery.”
“I think if you have the compulsion to write, you're not going to feel whole until you start putting words on paper.”

Source : Source: www.sfsignal.com
“Happiness is like the weather. Sometimes itâ€™s rainy, sometimes itâ€™s sunny, and you gotta just go through and accept whatâ€™s there in front of you.”
“I wouldn't say I'm fixated on describing any kind of relationship whether it is a father and a son, or a family. I don't like it when people say that I'm particularly following the same line or that I'm only interested in family dramas. I'm interested in human relationships. The most intimate, the most delicate, and the most intriguing relationships are those within a family.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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