"I think I have character, and that is what people like in me."

-- Carine Roitfeld

#Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Loveâ€”the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as a recipient has been compromised or incompleteâ€”is the constant on the continuum of hunger, it's what links the anorexic to the garden-variety dieter, it's the persistent pulse of need and yearning behind the reach for food, for sex, for something.”
“... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of menâ€™s work. The pyramids weigh down the earth, the tower of Babel has pierced the sky, the lovely temples and the gray castles have fallen into ruins. But of all those things which hands have built, what hasnâ€™t fallen nor ever will fall? Dear friends, throw away the trowel and mortarboard! Throw your masonsâ€™ aprons over your heads and lie down to build dreams! What are temples of stone and clay to the soul? Learn to build eternal mansions of dreams and visions!”
“If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.”

Source : Reginald Horace Blyth (1960). “Zen and Zen Classics”
“To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to ... for all we individuals to have ... our choices.”
“I think you pay people based on their work and not based on gender. It's that simple.”
“Increase your joy by doing the good you wish to have done to you.”
“You have to live life if you're going to create believable lives on paper.”
“In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me.”

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