"By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life."

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Source : Georg Simmel (2015). “The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms”, p.204, University of Chicago Press

Georg Simmel

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“Do what you love. When you love your work, you become the best worker in the world.”
“Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible for billions of sighs of satisfaction.”

Source : Margaret Visser (2015). “The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners”, p.16, Open Road Media
“I'd love to say something heroic. I'd love to say we made history. But basically it was a bunch of guys parked around the Bay there, and somebody grabbed a board and went surfing, and it looked so good the rest of us guys said, 'Hey, we got to get in on this.'”
“I grew up in a family full of yellers. People screaming and chaos goin' on, I feel right at home in it. I've really worked on myself with anger management. I try to save that for the stage.”
“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.”
“Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam, the Mahdi.”
“The only reason I'd ever get a sex change operation is to see what it's like to be right all the time.”
“Realize that your world is only a reflection of yourself and stop finding fault with the reflection. Attend to yourself, set yourself right; mentally and emotionally. The physical self will follow automatically.”

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