"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth."

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Albert Schweitzer

#Nature Quotes #Men Quotes #Society Quotes

“Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.”
“The cross is going to judge everything in your life: your eating, your drinking, your sleeping, your spending, your talking. Everything is cross-examined!”
“Instead of the 1997 film directed, written, by James Cameron with Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane creating a love story and a large diamond with a beautiful song â€œMy Heart Will Go Onâ€ sung by Celine Dion. What about the real love story that took place that night between the passengers themselves, and many crew members knowing they would also give their lives. Adding another meaning for â€œSOSâ€ Service, Obedience, and Sacrifice.”
“Starving for a high, a place to hang out inside my own head. Starving for touch. Pain, even. A way to feel. I need to feel.”
“was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep?”
“Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.”
“I've known people who had fantastic ideas, but who couldn't get the idea off the ground because they approached everything weakly. They thought that their ideas would somehow take off by themselves, or that just coming up with an idea was enough. Let me tell you something - it's not enough. It will never be enough. You have to put the idea into action. If you don't have the motivation and the enthusiasm, your great idea will simply sit on top of your desk or inside your head and go nowhere.”
“After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.”

Source : Giacomo Casanova, Willard R. Trask (1997). “History of My Life”, p.50, JHU Press

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