"The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority."

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Source : Bertrand Russell (1987). “Bertrand Russell on ethics, sex, and marriage”

Bertrand Russell

#Discipline Quotes #Desire Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I looked at him. "You really need to work on your threats. I can't tell if you're threatening me or inviting me for tea.”
“For an actor to go to work every day is an extreme blessing.”

Source : Source: gq.com
“The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika.”
“Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God of Jesus seeking union with us. The living acts of a Christian become somehow the acts of Christ.”
“These soldiers had done what they had done, and been done unto in return. This was how it went. In the cycle of slaughter, reprisal begat reprisal, forever.”
“When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go to art school, I was just following my muse. A woman who did that then was criticized for having no direction. Today they call it versatility.”

Source : Biography magazine, April 2002.
“A Christ upon paper, though it were the sacred pages of the Gospel, would have been as powerless to save Christendom as a Christ in fresco; not less feeble than the Countenance which, in the last stages of its decay, may be traced on the wall of the Refectory at Milan. A living Christ is the key to the phenomenon of Christian history.”
“Don't ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It's too short, and you're too special.”

Source : "Even Performers Like Me Get Bullied" by Ariana Grande, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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