Eva Heller Quotes

There's no point in clinging to illusions.

Eva Heller

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• Né spegner può, per starne l'acqua, il fuoco,Né può stato mutar, per mutar loco.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• [Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
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• I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Work
  • Want
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• No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more need there is for wit.".

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Safety
  • Civilization
  • Repression

• And oft I thought (my fancy was-so strong) That I, at last, a resting-place had found: 'Here: will I dwell,' said I,' my whole life long, Roaming the illimitable waters round; Here will I live, of all but heaven disowned. And end my days upon the peaceful flood - To break my dream the vessel reached its bound; And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Long
  • Home
  • Dream

• I have no question: It is enough, I know what fixed the station Of star and cloud. And knowing all, I cry. . . .

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Enough
  • Stars
  • Knowing

• I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Artist
  • Fact
  • Performer

• Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Control

• Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Joy
  • Magnet
  • Path Of Life

• Ideas don't get smaller when they're shared, they get bigger.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Ideas
  • Bigger

• In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.

  

  Bill Porter
  • Good
  • Body
  • Impermanence

• I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what I have done. Have I, that put it into words, Spoilt what old loins have sent?

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Done
  • Son
  • Judging

• The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Done
  • History

• My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Magic
  • Idea
  • Illusions

• A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies, their illusions, their flower world, the dreams they live in.”

  

  Christina Stead
  • Girl
  • Woman
  • Dreams

• There's no point in clinging to illusions.

  

  Eva Heller
  • Illusions
  • Clinging