"If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives."

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Source : Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales”, Knopf

Bruno Bettelheim

#Achievement Quotes #Needs Quotes #Consciousness Quotes

“I do not believe in people owning guns. Guns should be owned only by the police and military. I am going to do everything I can to disarm this state.”
“At first, I thought 'this series is going to be all about death and desecration,' but instead became a more complex landscape of human relationships. I hope I put something of these feelings into the portraits that I made of the characters, which were landscapes in themselves. An irony in the subject of crystal meth is how beautifully it resembles the desert sky.”

Source : "The day when Bill Murray got festive and Belle & Sebastian went techno" by Sam Richards, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2014.
“We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.”
“Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end PC is right now.”
“I know some stories about "liberation" and stuff that's been liberated by people who turn around and get on their soapbox about how it's unfair that the artists didn't benefit while they're sitting on stuff that they "liberated," but that's another story for another time.”
“To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing.”

Source : Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.124, Pan Macmillan
“Once you cared about a person, it was impossible to be logical about them anymore.”
“You know, we live here in America and sometimes don't understand the realities of geography and demographics in Eastern Europe.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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