Quotes
Authors
Martin Buber

"I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience."

Source : "Martin Buber: An Intimate Portrait". Book by Aubrey Hodes, 1971.

Martin Buber

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“I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love.”
“This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself. By which words I do not denote any one of my ideas, but a thing entirely distinct from them, wherein they exist, or, which is the same thing, whereby they are perceived; for the existence of an idea consists in being perceived.”

Source : George Berkeley (2015). “Principles of Human Knowledge: Human Understanding”, p.17, 谷月社
“I never volunteer to talk about god or religion, but people feel compelled to talk about it.”
“I do not know what you are supposed to do with memories likes these. It feels wrong to want to forget. Perhaps this is why we write these things down, so we can move on.”
“One day I realized that it didn't matter whether people loved me or not.”
“One lesson I got from Gandhi, 'Be the change you want to see,' haunts me. I just feel like I can't keep stomping around pointing the finger at BP when I am supporting the oil industry with my very own dollars and actions by buying their products, helping to pay their mortgage - plastic is from oil... polyester, shower curtains.”
“There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.”

Source : "Mindy’s Pally". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2014.
“Time is inelastic and inflexible. Time is indispensable. No achievement is possible without time.”

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