"Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life?"

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Source : Guy Finley (2010). “The Secret of Letting Go”, p.105, Llewellyn Worldwide

Guy Finley

#Stress Quotes #Asking Quotes #Crowds Quotes

“Who teaches the soul if not God?”
“That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.”
“The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for nothing about it could be called normal: most of it was absurd, and if not absurd, then appalling.”

Source : W. G. Sebald (2016). “Vertigo”, p.106, New Directions Publishing
“Really to believe in human nature while striving to know the thousand forces that warp it from its ideal development-to call for and expect much from men and women, and not to be disappointed and embittered if they fall short- to try to do good with people rather than to them- this is my religion on its human side. And if God exists, I think that he must be in the warm sun, in the kindly actions of the people we know and read of, in the beautiful things of art and nature, and in the closeness of friendships.”

Source : "The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918".
“This condition of uncertainty and unrest in the Roman Empire might explain why at Plotinus' philosophy encourages us to sort of flee from the physical world and towards the world of ideas.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“I could not tell Himmler everything because he was too false and two-faced.”

Source : Letter to Leon Goldensohn. Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004, March 13, 1946.
“I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.”
“Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.”

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