"The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination."

-- Joseph Campbell

#Inspirational Quotes #Time Quotes #Pain Quotes

“As I've gotten older and seen people around me evolving and moving on with life, I just have a stronger sense of my own mortality and time itself becomes more precious. I don't want to spend this precious and limited time on things that don't necessarily bring me happiness.”

Source : "Justin Long's Short List of Career Musts". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. November 6, 2013.
“The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.”
“I think that submissiveness can [be] and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from them.”
“It's not like I hate gay people.”

Source : Ali Liebegott (2007). “The IHOP Papers”, p.2, Carroll & Graf
“DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989 after creating close to 80 works. But it is perhaps the most comprehensive, combining biography, criticism, the analysis of dance criticism, and a sort of corporate history, siting the now firmly established Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in the international cultural landscape.”
“I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.”
“The Judo pupil, therefore, must cultivate his mind; he must never feel fear, never lose his temper, never be off his guard; but he must be cool and calm, though not absent-minded; he must act as quick as thought, according to circumstances. He must also be dexterous as well as bold both in attack and in defense.”
“La memoria no guarda pelÃculas, guarda fotografÃas.”

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