"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."

-- Leonardo da Vinci

#Life Quotes #Death Quotes

“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.”
“You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.”
“Every time I hit the stage I try to take something from it. There are a lot of shows and opportunities to be seen like that. I like to just take all of them and allow them to help me build.”

Source : Source: youknowigotsoul.com
“I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.”
“Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.”
“We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity.”
“All the world loves a lover, and a lover loves all the world.”

Source : Anthony Storr (2005). “Solitude: A Return to the Self”, p.187, Simon and Schuster
“Love me or hate me, I always speak the truth.”

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