"Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic emerged from indolence; and the melancholy who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity."

-- Johann Kaspar Lavater

#Passion Quotes #Character Quotes #Pride Quotes

“I'm not doing well. Don't try to talk about this to my sister Liz. She will know it sooner or later.”
“Live in a perpetual great astonishment.”

Source : Theodore Roethke (2006). “Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63”, p.175, Copper Canyon Press
“There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the real. You just see reflections”

Source : Douglas Sirk, Lucy Fischer (1991). “Imitation of Life”, p.228, Rutgers University Press
“Love is like fire, a dangerous thing to play with, although the best of friends and the most loyal of servants when rightly handled.”
“News reporters are certainly liberal and left of center.”
“Sometimes the best results come when you are thrown in the deep end.”
“Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.”
“Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.”

Source : "At 90, an Environmentalist From the '70s Still Has Hope". Interview With Thomas Vinciguerra, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2007.

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