"For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers."

-- Albert Camus

#Self Quotes #Water Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Old age is the harbor of all ills.”

Source : "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, Book 4: The Academy, 47, c. 200 A.D..
“If that's what you're thinking, then don't even question it. Go let your freak flag fly, brother.”
“I think I've always been much better at responding kind of reasonably appropriately to whatever is required.”

Source : Source: www.sbs.com.au
“People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
“Don't think about what the market's going to do; you have absolutely no control over that. Think about what you're going to do if it gets there. In particular, you should spend no time at all thinking about those rosy scenarios in which the market goes your way, since in those situations, there's nothing more for you to do. Focus instead on those things you want least to happen and on what your response will be.”
“I'm fearless, I don't complain. Even when horrible things happen to me, I go on.”
“The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up.”

Source : "Michelangelo Antonioni : The Complete Films" edited by Seymour Chatman and Paul Duncan, (p. 113), 2004.
“The Armstrong record that I personally like the most, is a recording of a song by Harold Arlen called, "I Got a Right to Sing the Blues" . Most of Armstrong's solos tended to stick pretty close to the melody. But for some reason, it's like he let go of the tether and suddenly he's playing this beautiful high, almost abstract line that's floating above the beat. I compare it to the way that a 19th century operatic tenor might have sang an Aria because he's just completely let loose of the background and he's making this magic sort of flying above the staff.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

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