Quotes of Marcel Ophuls

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Puritanism…helps us enjoy our misery while we are inflicting it on others.

- Marcel Ophuls

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“ A heart, once stolen, can never be taken back. ”

- Marissa Meyer

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ Reading is life, Reading is knowledge, Reading Is Everything. ”

- Ezra Heft

“ I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ Do not let your negative thoughts have power over you because those thoughts will end up controlling your life. No one can live a positive life with a negative mind. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Your past, including your failures, simply offers feedback that makes you wiser and stronger than before. ”

- Brittany Burgunder

“ There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain. ”

- Audrey Hepburn

“ Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. ”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

“ When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. ”

- Plato

“ I constantly challenge my athletes with workouts that take them to the upper edge of their ability. Like Brett's, my philosophy is that your biggest competitor is yourself. I will never ask the impossible. But I will come close. Those who answer with courage and selfbelief instead of fear and doubt are the ones who realize their dreams. ”

- Siri Lindley

“ I find it odd the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ There are many Mondays to go before I die. I may as well look forward to them. ”

- Trevor Carss

“ The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love? ”

- Orhan Pamuk

“ Love alone could waken love. ”

- Pearl S. Buck

“ If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit. ”

- Banksy

“ A lot goes into everything but sometimes you have to sacrifice everything in order to achieve a lot. ”

- Kayambila Mpulamasaka

“ Your dream should always be greater than your grievances ”

- Aadarsh Singh

“ When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful. ”

- Eric Thomas

“ I do love nothing in the world so well as you is not that strange? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Either you run the day, or the day runs you. ”

- Jim Rohn

“ In the waltz of the leaves in the air In the features of the playful clouds In the nostalgia carried by the wind In Paris alone, I save your love (fragment from Your presence “partout”, chapter Hope) ”

- Claudia Pavel

“ I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the covers before I do something stupid. ”

- Josephine Angelini

“ After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? ”

- Russell Hoban