"I think it's true that for existentialist thinkers, appreciation of what we are - free, makers of meaning, 'issues' for ourselves, and so on - is at the same time a recognition of how we should try to live."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

David E. Cooper

#Appreciation Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Issues Quotes

“In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.”
“I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more.”
“I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager. . .and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill that. . .”
“The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected parts of it that cannot be spoken.”
“It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.”
“I work in fashion because the world is such a heavy place that I need to be in this industry that fights for five hours to get a dress.”
“Any theology that is indifferent to the theme of liberation is not Christian theology.”

Source : James H. Cone (1970). “A Black Theology of Liberation”, p.9, Orbis Books
“Most of actor's work is done at home, in your hotel room, in the wee hours of the morning thinking and reading and feeling, walking around and listening to music. It really just because an internal exercise, whatever skills. It's great if you have to learn something new for a gig and designing a character physically is always fun but it does become an internal exercise in separating the wheat from the chaff.”

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