"High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments."

-- Christopher Hitchens

#Character Quotes #Accomplishment Quotes #Moral Quotes

“He who knows himself best esteems himself least.”

Source : Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1860). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases”, p.400
“Keep ramping up your level of joy every day. There is no limit to the levels of joy you can reach. You will see change to the degree of joy that you can attain and maintain. The higher the joy you can create within you, the more spectacular the change, and the higher the joy, the faster the change. Your emanation of joy attracts more Joy. The law of attraction will continually send you more feelings of joy!”
“I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years”
“Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?”

Source : Martin Heidegger (2014). “Introduction to Metaphysics: Second Edition”, p.25, Yale University Press
“In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.”
“They wanted to wait, to improve, to get better, when he's already a world champion. And that's a mistake. That's a chicken attitude.”
“Being stick skinny to the extent where you can see your bones through your skin is not a good look. You don't need to be that to be beautiful or to be perfect or to fit in. Who you are is exactly who you should be. You can't let other people dictate your life or how you feel about yourself because then you're not living.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I love music. I seriously cannot wait until the day comes that I get to perform around the world for people, I've wanted to do that my whole life.”

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