"Briefs need limitations and invitations"

-- David Rockwell

#Needs Quotes #Invitations Quotes #Limitation Quotes

“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness.”

Source : T. H. White (1983). “The Maharajah and Other Stories”, Berkley
“One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartesâ€™ argument â€œI think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity.”
“An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.”
“And it's exactly what's wrong with the radio. It's like...anything that tries to appeal to everybody always ends up sounding so cheap.”

Source : Joe Meno (2012). “Office Girl”, p.167, Akashic Books
“I see the horizon. A light blue, a beautiful band. This is the Earth. How beautiful it is! All goes well.”
“I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.”
“Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.”
“A humble person is more likely to be self confident... a person with real humility knows how much they are loved.”

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