"Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good."

-- Marcus Aurelius

#Integrity Quotes #Years Quotes #Over You Quotes

“Haunted from my early youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life, I was aware that it is not enough to say "I am doing no harm," I ought to be testing myself daily, and asking myself what I am really achieving.”
“This is the world. I don't really believe in hell or heaven or an after life at all, I believe this is it. It can be a paradise for you, if you've got the right mindset. Or it can be a total nightmare. The song is just about remembering these moments of, you know, these epiphanies or magical moments of clarity that I think everybody has at some point in their life, often, while they're taking acid or something like that, or while they're doing really intense yoga.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me. Everything I've done ends up working in my favor. Even when I make mistakes and people exploit my mistakes on television or on the Internet, and they use it to make fun of me, it's just kind of working in my favor at the end. It's really strange.”

Source : Interview with Lauren Bans, www.gq.com. September 20, 2011.
“Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.”
“Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit . . .”
“I just thought Iâ€˜d never look good in what everybody else wore. So thereâ€™s no point trying. You just have to do what suits you, and it doesnâ€™t matter if you donâ€™t look like everybody else. Be you. Thatâ€™s our gift and weâ€™ve got to celebrate that, but it does take ages. I was wracked with self-doubt for years. I get spasms of it even now â€“ Iâ€™m not indelibly self-confident.”
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

Source : Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”
“We know that Europe loves President Obama. He had adoring crowds. The press loves Obama. The question is how will this date end? Okay? The question is, to what end? Why do they love President Obama? They love his personal story, they love his wife. North Korea, China and Russia don't really care about Michelle's arms and, you know, whether they gave an iPod to the Queen, okay?”

Source : "Laura Ingraham Tweaks 'Today' On Obama Obsession". "Today" with Matt Lauer, www.newsbusters.org. April 8, 2009.

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