"Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear"

-- E. F. Schumacher

#Independence Quotes #Needs Quotes #Existential Quotes

“I mean I think that's a fact and I think that we had a very peculiar type of Catholic Church here in that it was a fortress Church.”
“There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.”
“She was the breeze on a summer's day, the first drops of rain when the earth was parched, light from the evening star.”
“Fly without wings; Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.”
“The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.”

Source : Henry Walter Bates (1873). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.129
“I like to innovate. To me, if it's worth doing something, it's worth doing it well. Do something that's going to demand attention and notice.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.”
“For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She's a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the '80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.”

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