"Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles."

-- Freya Stark

#Discipline Quotes #Solitude Quotes #Penance Quotes

“There are, it seems, two muses: The Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say, 'It is yet more difficult than you thought.' It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.”
“Credit you give yourself is not worth having.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.”

Source : Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett
“Suddenness," he says. " You do not prepare, you do not explain, you do not apologize. Suddenly, you go. And with you, you take all contemplation, all consideration of your own departure. All the suffering that would have come from knowing comes after you are gone, and you are not a part of it.”
“Whenever you're trying to do a film in a genuine historical period, you do have to make sure that you get as much historically accurate as you possibly can because there are thousands of people who are wildly interested in the Civil War. If we get anything wrong, there is no doubt that we're going to hear from them.”
“Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.”
“You can only do good if you feel good.”
“Films don't cause violence, people do. Violence defines our existence. To shield oneself is more dangerous than trying to reflect it.”

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