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The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#achievement #final #incongruity #life #requires

You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people. ↗

— Xavier Niel

#down #help #help people #look #money

When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90) ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#death #eternity #life #now #art

As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#artist #choice #dare #freedom #inside

I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#building #flows #i #more #nothing

I absolutely refuse the fame part of my business. I refuse even the money side of my business. I try to do as good work as I can do, I try to grow in my art and reach for truth. That's what I want from my art, that's what I aspire to. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#art #aspire #business #even #fame

I will always find something that I want to try and become better at. I always love to spend more time with my friends, more time with my family, my extended family. I always want to read more books. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#become #better #books #extended #extended family

You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#between #difference #discover #guys #mad

It wasn’t like he was purposely being an asshole. It just came naturally to him. ↗

— R.L. Mathewson

#playing-for-keeps #rl-mathewson #nature

I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my mind off, because they give you a premise and all of a sudden, you say, 'Oh!' and I'm fascinated by it. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#because #drops #fascinated #favorite #fiction