"Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these as with my own soul; they became the sharers of my confidence."

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Source : "Holism and Evolution". Book by Jan Smuts, 1926.

Jan Smuts

#Soul Quotes #Way Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“Play not only keeps us young but also maintains our perspective about the relative seriousness of things. Running is play, for even if we try hard to do well at it, it is a relief from everyday cares.”
“Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.”
“Unsolicited redesigns are terrific and fun and useful, and I hope designers never stop doing them. But as they do so, I also hope they remember it helps no one - least of all the author of the redesign - to assume the worst about the original source and the people who work hard to maintain and improve it, even though those efforts may seem imperfect from the outside.”
“As a Jew, your passions were so inflamed by that message, you made up a lie to implicate my client, isn't that true?”
“I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like a crazy person, that's when things go wrong.”
“In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.”
“When I was an actor in some movies a long time ago, I was so curious about all the camera movements - why is the camera placed here, and why does it move like this? And why the set and the background, the color? It's a lot of questions for me to ask, because I was so interested, not only in acting, but also the whole process of filmmaking.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 6, 2005.

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