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Quotes by Swedish Authors
"I wasn't a complete bastard. If she liked to think she saw good in me, if she wanted to take credit for it, I'd let her. She deserved that much."
"Presence is the capacity to be present for another person with an open heart and to be grounded in our inner being. It is to be present for another person as a supporting light, as a supporting presence " and simply to be present with another person can help."
"Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak."
"Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying."
"There is a very simple relationship between increased socioeconomic rifts in the society and increased violence, criminality, war, increased lack of trust between people, health problems and social exclusion - but it seems to be very difficult for people to understand this simple relationship."
"Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms."
"Acceptance is to love and embrace everything that we find within ourselves like a mother embraces her child."
"Just everything else, Mum. I just have everything else from you."
"Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line."
"If you were my agent and I was making $10 million a movie and made four movies a year, that means you have a salary of $4 million."
"Emptiness and the not-"I is the quality that arises when the therapist consciously moves out of his own way without hindering the therapeutic process through his own ideas, attitudes, expectations and concepts. He is present, available and responds with the truth in the moment."
"We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect."
"My basic profession is as an actor, and I have learnt much about life through working as an actor. Working as an actor is really a spiritual profession, since it means to create life on the stage. It means to play a role totally, while at the same time you know deep down inside yourself that you are not the role that you are playing. Working as an actor gave me early a spiritual discipline, which taught me a lot about awareness and meditation. Life is also about learning to play different roles, and learning to change between different roles with the same easiness that you change shirt."
"A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life."
"There are certainly a good number of alternatives to 'shit,' if you have a particular need to express such a feeling."
"Sometimes it's easier to go on living, not even knowing who you are, when at least you know precisely where you are while you go on not knowing."
"There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond."
"I was tired in the evening yesterday. I felt drained by the last days outer conflicts. I felt separated from life. Suddenly I heard the wind blowing through the trees outside my open window, whispering a silent and playful invitation: "Do you want to play? Do you want to join the dance?" This playful invitation again joined my heart and being with the Existential dance. I was again in a silent prayer and oneness with life."
"When times get tough and your path gets rough, just hold on. You'll get there soon enough."
"What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them."
"The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life."
"Your heart is your compass in the journey of life, follow it."
"Ove could not in all honesty remember how it all started. It wasn't the sort of dispute where you did remember. It was more an argument where the little disagreements had ended up so entangled that every new word was treacherously booby-trapped, and in the end it wasn't possible to open one's mouth at all without setting off at least four unexploded mines from earlier conflicts. It was the sort of argument that had just run, and run, and run. Until one day it just ran out."
"She laughed and laughed and laughed until the vowels were rolling across the walls and floors, as if they meant to do away with the laws of time and space. It made Ove feel as if his chest was slowly rising out of the ruins of a collapsed house after an earthquake. It gave his heart space to beat again."
"She is told all the things she shouldn't have done: She shouldn't have waited so long before going to the police. She shouldn't have gotten rid of the clothes she was wearing. Shouldn't have showered. Shouldn't have drunk alcohol. Shouldn't have put herself in that situation. Shouldn't have gone into the room, up the stairs, given him the impression. If only she hadn't existed, then none of this would have happened, why didn't she think of that?"
"He is wearing a rugby shirt with numbers and a little man on a horse on his chest. Kent has told Elsa that this sort of shirt costs more than a thousand kronor, and Granny always used to say that those sorts of shirts were a good thing, because the horse functioned as a sort of manufacturer's warning that the shirt was highly likely to be transporting a muppet."
"Do not blindly accept anyone's definition of your life and define it yourself."
"When we become silent, we become whole. And when we become whole, we become holy."
"Love means to understand the drama that happens between the inner man and woman. It means to allow both the inner man and woman to find their creative roots and expression."
"They say live it how you want toOr else someone else will.This is my life, and I willLive it."
"Not all monsters look like monsters. There are some that carry their monstrosity inside."
"Presence is about how every action can arise from the quality, which we call awareness " the presence of our inner being, the presence of our soul. It is a large difference between working with people from the inner being and working with people from duty or a specific technique. Through working from the inner being, we can touch the soul of the other person, while we can only touch the personality of the other person, his surface and periphery, if we just work from a technique."
"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."
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