"As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence."

-- H. P. Lovecraft

#Agony Quotes #Scales Quotes #Existence Quotes

“Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I like to go to places where you can relax a little after youre done working.”
“I'm still prone to periods of isolation, still more fearful of the world out there and more averse to pleasure and risk than I'd like to be; I still direct more energy toward controlling and minimizing appetites than toward indulging them.”
“In the seven or eight years we were together, we were never together.”
“The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is no Deity.”

Source : Reginald Horace Blyth (1948). “Zen in English literature and oriental classics”
“The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.”
“Since I was a kid, I've liked to see how things are done. Sometimes when you see how things are done, it's like watching a 'making of' within the story. You see the physical aspect, the construction of things.”
“I wanted to get in the ring and be like Muhammad Ali.”

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