David Bezmozgis Quotes
We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are.
Quotes to Explore
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
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I am proud of religious Zionism. I am proud of the members of religious Zionism because it is a true ideological public.
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We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.
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We got ourselves into a position to win the game and we let ourselves down again. It's not good enough.
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It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.
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There's only one of us here: What we give to others, we give to ourselves. What we withhold from others, we withhold from ourselves. In any moment, when we choose fear instead of love, we deny ourselves the experience of Paradise.
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If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.
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In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.
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Dere is one cave,” remarked the guide, “not far off to here. P’raps we be safe if we git into ’im. But I ’fraid it not do, cause him be peepiled by fiends an’ dead man’s spirits.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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Christians are supposed to love each other. Communists are supposed to share bonds with all proletarians and other communists. Every ideological group proclaims universality, and all of them bicker internally, never displaying unity except in the face of a common enemy. Humanism today is the common enemy of Christians.
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I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.
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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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I just feel, in life, I'm searching for something I can rely on, something that's constant and something that's going to guide me through. And I felt that the Northern Star is a very beautiful image of that.
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To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
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Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
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I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past.
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An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.
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You are a beautiful mess, you are the melody.
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The problem with any ideology is that it gives you the answer before you examine the evidence.
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Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.
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We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are.
