"There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and pointâ€¦ The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it."

-- Richard Dawkins

#Meaningful Quotes #Atheist Quotes #Responsibility Quotes

“As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little Match Girl'in the Hans Christian Andersen story. When I was in the boarding nursery and did not want to finish my food, the teacher would say:'Think of all the starving children in the capitalist world!”

Source : Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.246, Simon and Schuster
“It was disconcerting for the novel to seem so different when I re-read it. Of course we are a different person each time we open a book to read it again; we can never really experience it in the same way, just as we can never step into the same stream twice.”
“Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”
“Money, power, love, sex (until they get married), adulation, children, and control. Of these, children cause the most trouble. Women also want equal rights and equal pay for equal work, and I agree with them 100%. Though on some days it is hard to figure out how a species that controls 97% of the money and all the ***** can be downtrodden.”
“Sorry I’m so sarcastic. I feel really bad about it.”

Source : "Jennette McCurdy Is Basically Our Newfound Soulmate" by Megan Mayer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2014.
“Once you accept and rejoice in your authenticity, you begin to see things as YOU are. You begin to see the authentic self is the Soul made visible. Godspeed on your journey to wholeness.”
“The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting”

Source : Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.60, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“The play-it-safe pessimists of the world never accomplish much of anything, because they don't look clearly and objectively at situations, they don't recognize or believe in their own abilities to overcome even the smallest amount of risk.”

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