"It's not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It's like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death's terror. We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer."

-- Irvin D. Yalom

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“The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.”
“This Christmas, every Christmas, Santa Claus is everywhere and Jesus is nowhere to be found.”
“If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.”
“I've never made any concessions, so I am 100% responsible for my films. This makes me feel very proud.”

Source : "Interview with Jean-Pierre Jeunet for TS Spivet". Interview with Matthew Turner, www.filmuforia.co.uk. June 12, 2014.
“Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to acertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done.”
“If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.”
“It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no circumstance can it be of the smallest possible utility.”
“Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.”

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