"One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world."

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Source : "Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary". Book by Hannah Szenes, 1938.

Hannah Szenes

#Believe Quotes #Needs Quotes #World Quotes

“With respect to the use of this sparkling coloured material (butterfly wings around 1955, fh) - the constituent parts of which remain indistinguishable - with the aim of producing a very vivid effect of scintillation, I realised that, for me, this responds to needs of the same order as those that formerly led me, in many drawings and paintings, to organize my lines and patches of colour so that the objects represented would meld into everything around them, so that the result would be a sort of continuous, universal soup with an intensive flavour of life.”
“To injure your opponent is to injure yourself.”
“If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.”
“I was a camp counselor for kids whose moms were on welfare, unfortunately, and right across the camp was the best, most pristine and preppy camp in the universe.”
“Obviously the trouble with having a hit with something like a cover of a ballad, you attract a whole new set of listeners, which is great, but on the other hand they start to pigeonhole you a little bit.”
“Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference?”

Source : Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.113, Macmillan
“Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a chlld then,so I have only an intuitive understanding of the degree to which one losses control of words once they are spoken or written. It was then that I first felt a deep curiosity about language, and understood it as a tool that encompasses both a single moment and eternity”
“I enjoy doing martial arts films, but I like the straight stuff, too. I'd like to go back and do some Shakespeare, and maybe knock out a play or two. It's all about keeping balance.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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