"One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)"

-- Ingmar Bergman

#Bergman Quotes #Manage Quotes

“I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.”
“The recollection of one upward hour Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer The darkness of despondency, than years Of gayety and pleasure.”

Source : James Gates Percival (1822). “Prometheus, part II, with other poems”, p.105
“I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had; when I wake up I wish some of the things I dreamt would be true. I wish that little black and white boys and girls would hold hands without being shocked at their nearness to each other and say in a natural way, "we have overcome.”
“Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.”
“Daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. But I fear nothing, because of the promises of heaven.”
“I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them ... As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.”

Source : Lucian Freud, Richard Calvocoressi, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (1997). “Lucian Freud: early works : Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art”
“Law..is too important to be left to the lawyers.”
“Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year's pining, one long unfolding note.”

Source : Julia Glass (2003). “Three Junes”, Vintage

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