Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Quotes to Explore
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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My personal philosophy is that people should be extremely selfish for the first half of their life and extremely unselfish for the second half because then they can do the most good.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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I was lucky. My parents and teachers provided me with a wonderful and secure childhood where I always knew I was loved, valued, and listened to.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.
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The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.
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I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.
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I'm an incredibly intelligent, insightful human being.
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They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.
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It came into existence because I had to paint it. Any attempt on my part to say something about it, to attempt explanation of the inexplicable, could only destroy it. 1947, on his painting 'She wolf'
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I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
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'Birds seen flying around, you never see them too long on the ground, You want to be one of them...'
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Sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say, 'You're bright!' They're actually surprised I might be bright.
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I'm a bit of a goofball; I don't have a lot of censors and I don't have a lot boundaries and I'm trying to remember that the world is watching.
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A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowed me up and stifled me in the abyss. But my invincible sense of shame prevailed over everything . It was my shame that made me impudent, and the more wickedly I behaved the bolder my fear of confession made me. I saw nothing but the horror of being found out, of being publicly proclaimed, to my face, as a thief, as a liar, and slanderer.
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Learning is to discover that something is possible. We are using most of our energies for self-destructiv e games, self-preventing games. We prevent ourselves from growing the very moment something unpleasant, something painful comes up. At that moment we become phobic, we run away, we desensitize ourselves. Neurotic suffering is suffering in imagination, suffering in fantasy.
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Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
