"I don't really usually push an agenda, and I don't feel that my main job is to persuade people of something. My main job is to help them think about something."

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Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

Louis Menand

#Jobs Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“There is nothing there - no soul - there is only this question about after death. The question has to die now to find the answer - your answer; not my answer - because the question is born out of the assumption, the belief, that there is something to continue after death.”
“When you are Real, shabbiness doesn't matter.”

Source : Margery Williams Bianco, Margery Williams, Thea Kliros (1989). “The Velveteen Rabbit Coloring Book”, p.22, Courier Corporation
“I don't feel like you can fully find the true character until you're in his wardrobe, on set, and really getting into the scene. And that's when you really find out who your character is.”
“The clothing is moving, the external version is moving. Whether the internal version is moving or not it is a different matter. It is good to practice Ayurveda, it is good to worship the Gods and Goddesses, it is good to do bhajans. Of course, depending on what your own personal development is, that will determine how, in what way and how well you will be able to connect to that tradition and bring it to life inside yourself.”

Source : Source: wildyogi.info
“Mental illness doesn't choose the most talented or the smartest or the richest or the poorest. It shows no mercy and often arrives like an unexpected storm, dropping an endless downpour on young dreams.”
“It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be.”

Source : Selma Lagerlöf (2016). “Christ Legends and the Miracles of Antichrist”, p.477, Library of Alexandria
“The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow”
“Ah, sweet alcohol. Like a true friend, you replace the anger with better, louder anger.”

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