"At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory."

-- W. G. Sebald

#Memories Quotes #Believe Quotes #Eye Quotes

“There exists within everyone a grand passion, an outlandish thirst for adventure, a desire to live boldly and vividly through the journey of life.”
“Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.”
“The Founding Fathers were nothing more than a bunch of snobby English shits.”
“Advent is a journey towards Bethlehem. May we let ourselves be drawn by the light of God made man.”
“You wouldnâ€™t be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome fear.”
“I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As an activist, you gotta pick something that's particularly interesting to you and go for it - because there's no shortage of things to do. And it's sort of a long-term commitment. Activism is for life.”
“My father left me with the feeling that I had to live for two people, and that if I did it well enough, somehow I could make up for the life he should have had. And his memory infused me, at a younger age than most, with a sense of my own mortality. The knowledge that I, too, could die young drove me both to try to drain the most out of every moment of life and to get on with the next big challenge. Even when I wasn't sure where I was going, I was always in a hurry.”

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