Ernst Junger Quotes
Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to live. A happy century does not exist; but there are moments of happiness, and there is freedom in the moment.
Quotes to Explore
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If you start lifting weights, you will expect to put weight on, as muscle is heavier than fat. But you have to look more at your body shape - you will get heavier - but you might get smaller and heavier at the same time, which is fine. And it doesn't really matter what you weigh as long as you are happy with your shape and size!
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.
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I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.
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I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy.
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My life is better than a lot of people I know. I'm definitely happy about that.
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Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage.
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I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.
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If you could have imagined that someone is happy that Obama is president, it has to be Jimmy Carter because he is no longer the worst president in our history.
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I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
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Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
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I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.
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When my son was growing up, I was always guilty, no matter what I did. Make decisions and be happy with the decisions you've made. I tell myself, in the long run, it's the love, the quality of relationships that you have with your family, your friends and giving back to the community that matters.
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But the people of the Baltic nations also knew that freedom needs a foundation of security.
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Peoples everywhere wish and long for peace and freedom in their simplest and clearest connotations: an end to armed conflict and to the suppression of the inalienable rights of man.
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He was wild the way a mistreated dog becomes wild, not because it loves freedom, but because it has lost trust.
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I grew up not really having a father figure, and it didn't bother me, because he wasn't there in the first place. But then he started other families, and I was jealous. It was like he was happy without our family.
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I love comedy, so you want to make them happy, make them laugh.
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Tightfisted people are as mean with friendship as they are with cash-suspicious, unbelieving, and incurious.
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From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a box already built for us to fit inside. Our umbilical cord never seems to be severed; we only find new needs to fill. If we disconnected and severed our attachments, would we shatter our confinements and expand beyond our shell? Would the world look different? Would we recognize ourselves? Are we the box that we are inside, and to be authentically 'un-contained' would we still be able to exist? This is the irony of containment. As long as we don't push on the walls of our surroundings, we may never know how strong we really are.
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Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to live. A happy century does not exist; but there are moments of happiness, and there is freedom in the moment.
