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Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole? ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#hubris #mankind #mastery #perspective #world

It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one s dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical. It is sickness of the profoundest kind to believe that there is one reality. There is sickness in any piece of work or any piece of art seriously attempting to suggest that the idea that there is more than one reality is somehow redundant. ↗

— Clive Barker

#objectivity #perception #realities #reality #religion

Ultimately in the end, it's the director's choice. ↗

— Donnie Wahlberg

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Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#regret #retrospect #inspirational

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#inspirational #lecture #nonfiction #philosophy #self-reliance

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts. ↗

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

#bring #directly #facts #most #safest

One of the most scariest thing in life,is when you come to the realization that the only thing that can save you,is...yourself Demi lovato ↗

— Demi Lovato

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A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object. ↗

— Richard Schickel

#artist #movie #movie star #object #star

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. ↗