"We live in a world we ourselves create."

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Source : "The German Sturm und Drang". Book by Roy Pascal, p. 136, 1959.

Johann Gottfried Herder

“I liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play”
“I trust life not because I trust the world, but because I trust the God who lives in my heart.”
“I'm perfectly happy doing nothing. I'll hang around the house and take the dog to the park.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there was organised in the right way. You'll probably think I needed serious psychiatric treatment, but there were times when I would not buy a book because I knew it wouldn't fit one of the categories into which I had divided the library.”
“Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients.”
“In a clutch or a corner, I tend to make a weapon out of what is near at hand. That can be anything from a crowbar to a cat, though if I had a choice, I would prefer an angry cat, which I have found to be more effective than a crowbar. Although weaponless, I left the house by the back door, with two chocolate-pumpkin cookies. It's a tough world out there, and a man has to armor himself against it however he can. ~Odd Thomas”
“He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.”
“It happens, I do not know how, that most of the proud never really discover their true selves. They think they have conquered their passions and they find out how poor they really are only after they die.”

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