Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.
Quotes to Explore
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success.
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I don't think of myself as a gearhead or a motorcyclist. I'm not that young, and this is like another life of mine. But the people I know from that era think of me that way.
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The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
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When I first heard about Twittering, I thought it was the most disgusting thing I'd ever heard of in my life. It's like the devil: the idea that your personal life is there for everybody.
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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
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It's hard separating work from personal life.
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I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end.
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I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did, and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.
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I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.
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I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel the civilisation of that closed world was mortally wounded by those invasions the old world is destroyed. That has to be understood. Ancient Hindu India was destroyed.
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It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.
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The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.
