"My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine."

-- Bell Hooks

#Book Quotes #Passion Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it's a bubble - it isn't real life.”
“Reality gets created through acts of observation”
“Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.”
“Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about lifeâ€”they have never felt its breath, its heartbeatâ€”however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.”
“I have learned when two Republicans are talking about legalizing drugs to shut up.”
“... when I left the stage door and sought my orientation among real people I was in a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.”
“Because I'm a man who works, who knows what a human being is like inside, who knows that every human being has his worth, and who wants the world to be governed by work and not by opinions about work.”
“I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.”

Source : James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.43

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