“I have always liked people who can't adapt themselves to life pragmatically.”
Andrei Tarkovsky book Sculpting in Time
Source: Sculpting in Time
TEDx Talks <br class="br">Source: Quote by Smita Nair Jain, goodreads, 2018-07-20 https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1918172.Smita_Nair_Jain,
“I have always liked people who can't adapt themselves to life pragmatically.”
Andrei Tarkovsky book Sculpting in Time
Source: Sculpting in Time
Merle Shain (1935–1989) Canadian writer
Some Men are More Perfect Than Others (1973)
“Let those love now who never loved before;
Let those who always loved, now love the more.”
Thomas Parnell (1679–1718) Anglo-Irish cleric, writer and poet.
Translation of the Pervigilium Veneris, written in the time of Julius Caesar, and by some ascribed to Catullus: Cras amet qui numquam amavit; Quique amavit, cras amet.
“O love! O love!
Be with us always
We who will perish salute death
Life alone goes on!”
O caritas, O caritas
nobis semper sit amor
mos perituri mortem salutamus — ah, ah
sola resurgit vita
Cat Stevens (1948) British singer-songwriter
O caritas, O caritas
nobis semper sit amor
mos perituri mortem salutamus — ah, ah
sola resurgit vita
"O' Caritas" (co-written with Andreas Toumazis and Jeremy Taylor)
Song lyrics, Catch Bull at Four (1972)
“There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.”
W. Somerset Maugham book Of Human Bondage
Source: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 71
“The life of Che is an inspiration to all human beings who cherish freedom.”
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
1990s, Speech at a Rally in Cuba (1991)
Context: We also honour the great Che Guevara, whose revolutionary exploits, including on our own continent, were too powerful for any prison censors to hide from us. The life of Che is an inspiration to all human beings who cherish freedom. We will always honour his memory.
“Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.”
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
1920s, Marriage and Morals (1929)