"He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur."

-- Johann Kaspar Lavater

#Want Quotes #Littles Quotes #Pursuit Quotes

“Imagine an iron house without windows, absolutely indestructible, with many people fast asleep inside who will soon die of suffocation. But you know since they will die in their sleep, they will not feel the pain of death. Now if you cry aloud to wake a few of the lighter sleepers, making those unfortunate few suffer the agony of irrevocable death, do you think you are doing them a good turn?”
“Everything is pointing to one's own activity of looking, to an awareness and sort of hyper-consciousness of visual perception. The only way I know how to invite this experience is by removing the other things (i.e., subject matter) for you to think about.”
“Funny how you can live a whole life waiting and not know it.”

Source : Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.215, Vintage
“I've worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you're seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You feel you ought to consider things more, and be more fussy - there's further to fall. All these little worries.”
“I love to have a beer with Duncan "Cause Duncan"s me mate”

Source : Song: Duncan
“We think we have to work because the advertising industry has elevated wants into needs. The newspapers and the television batter us incessantly with the latest 'must-haves', whether that's shoes, videogames or patio heaters. As a result, mums think they 'have' to work at Tesco in order to buy expensive trainers.”
“They had to match blood type and meet all sorts of things I don't know about.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”

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