#standing

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. ↗

— Carl Jung

#cope #cure #darkness #definite #does

I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers. ↗

— Peter Jurasik

#better #catholic #catholic church #church #decided

There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#first #god #oppressive #orthodox #positively

I'm officially middle-aged. I don't need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect just by standing up real fast. ↗

— Jonathan Katz

#effect #fast #get #god #i

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle. ↗

— Harvey Keitel

#deal #existence #gained #great #great deal

I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition. ↗

— Imran Khan

#i #outstanding #player #wanted

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#complaint #even #me #people #poorly

The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head! ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#behaviour #camera #damn #does #filming

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. ↗

— Thucydides

#before #bravest #clearest #danger #glory

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding. ↗

— Kenneth Tynan

#artist #beyond #comprehensible #forever #himself