"I am Jewish, but Beethoven is my religion."

--

Alice Herz-Sommer

“Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies.”

Source : Paul Klee (1969). “Paul Klee: Watercolors, Drawings, Writings”
“I have those songs as well. It depends on what I'm going through in my life but I'm a huge fan of Bjork. Sometimes I get so emotional because she's so amazing.”
“One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong.”
“In the West, it is the opposite, like you are using these practices [meditation and yoga ] to further your ego by being more productive, being more this, and getting more out of your work and earning more money. In the East, the whole idea is that you are dissolving your essence through these practices.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“I jump at any chance to go back into theater.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable ...”
“One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is a parody of the sage who has transcended his ego. If one is paranoid, the other is metanoid.”
“I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.”

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