"A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die."

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Source : Bernard Berenson (2013). “Sketch For A Self Portrait”, p.15, Read Books Ltd

Bernard Berenson

#Self Quotes #May Quotes #Aging Quotes

“How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.”
“I'm a patriot, and I think democracy is the best system available. It's very flawed, but it works better than anything else.”
“What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live - with your self-respect alive and growing.”
“Human material existence is limited by ideas, not stuff, people don't need copper wires they need ways to communicate, oil was a contaminant, then it became a fuel”
“Y'all mythological niggas is comical, The astronomical is comin' thru like tha flu bombin' you... And embalmin' in your crew, too. With the musical, mystical, magical, you know how I do.”
“What is remembered is what becomes reality,”
“When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.”
“The face of love is variable. I am able to love without demanding that my relationships assume the structures and forms I might choose for them. My love is fluid, flexible, committed, creative. My love allows people and events to unfold as they need. My love is not controlling. It does not dictate or demand. My love allows those I love the freedom to assume the forms most true to them. I release all those I love from my preconceptions of their path. I allow them the dignity of self-definition while I offer them a constant love that is every variable in shape.”

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