"If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we act as nature prompts us we can't go far wrong."

-- L. Frank Baum

#Thinking Quotes #Want Quotes #Longing Quotes

“The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.”
“The propensity to swindle grows parallel with the propensity to speculate during a boom the implosion of an asset price bubble always leads to the discovery of frauds and swindles”
“Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.”

Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1988). “In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays”, p.45, Northwestern University Press
“The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness which it is given to man to taste upon earth are, thanks to this angel, the joys of the Family.”
“Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.”
“I can bring in experiences that other actors who only grew up in television do not have.”
“I'd just like to see a role for women where someone who isn't traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character that only speaks in questions. 'Gee, are you gonna go out with him? Do you think I look fat?'”

Source : "Searching for Debra Winger". Documentary, July 13, 2002.
“I am not talking to you from the point of view of just wishful thinking, or imaginary craziness. I'm talking to you from a deeper basic understanding - quantum physics really begins to point to this discovery, it says that you can't have a universe without mind entering into it, the mind is actually shaping the very thing that is being perceived.”

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