Karl Ove Knausgaard Quotes

When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

• Life
• Real
• Freedom
• Lost
• Joy
• Purpose
• Happiness
• Childhood

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• Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Good
  • Choose

• I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Misunderstood
  • Pattern

• I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Kind
  • Training
  • Yoga

• I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Like
  • Hip Hop

• Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Succeed

• I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Up
  • Women
  • Fun

• The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

  

  Harold Warner
  • Heart
  • Character
  • True

• What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Money
  • Lost

• My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'

  

  Yves Behar
  • Good
  • Ideas
  • Design

• With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Confidence
  • Self-confidence

• To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • Difficult
  • Liberty

• It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Children
  • Future
  • Parents

• I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Confused

• I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • World
  • Music
  • Rock

• I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • You
  • Rich
  • Chocolate

• When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Revolution
  • Dictatorship

• I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Time
  • Children
  • Support

• Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Mind
  • Alone
  • Thought

• And me I'm in the bathroomcrying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a manwhen you're scared, just like a little kid.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes

• Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Real
  • Peace
  • Ignorance

• The truth is that key influencers exist in all effective organizations, but a solid-line org chart won't tell you where they are.

  

  Chris Fussell
  • Truth

• The six types of song that have shaped human nature-friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion, and love songs-I've come to think are obvious...

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Nature
  • Song
  • Knowledge

• There are many, many difficult times, god knows. If a person wants to stand on her own two feet, I recommend undertaking the care and feeding of something. It could be children, or it could be house plants, you know? By doing that you come to understand your own limitations. That's where it starts.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • God
  • Children
  • House

• When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Life
  • Real
  • Freedom