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Quotes by Swedish Authors

"A human being is so irreplaceable. So valuable and so unique."

"It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity."

"Sexuality is the door to love, and love is the door to silence, to the divine."

"When you come to the ultimate experience in meditation, when you come to your deepest core, you are no one. You are a vast emptiness.You can become afraid in meditation, because the deeper you go in meditation, the more you realize that you are nobody, a nothingness. It is a death of the ego. That is why people become afraid of meditation."

"I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy."

"Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe."

"Your perception of your dream changes as you walk toward it."

"A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence"."

"The most precious gift that you can give to the child is unconditional love and acceptance, which allows the child to discover his own inner being, his authentic self, his freedom to be himself."

"The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner."

"I do not belong to any spiritual group or tradition. I am just interested in exploring what it means to live with open eyes. People in spiritual organizations also tend to get caught in ideas of how it should be, and in the need of the ego to create hierachies of power, status, roles, ambition and obidience.Spiritual Masters teach on many different levels at the same time. Some people take what they can, and some take something deeper."

"Independence and free thought is what makes a person grow. By giving people the freedom and space to figure out who they are and be that, you give them the power to grow."

"I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much."

"Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it."

"But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there."


"I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character."


"I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it."

"To see life from the perspective of intuition is to have vision. To see life from the perspective of intuition is to see life from the perspective of wholeness. It is to understand that life is basically one and that we are part of life. While the intellect can only see the details, intuition sees the whole. To see life from the perspective of intuition is like looking at life from the summit of the mountain, whereas seeing life only from the perspective of intellect is like looking at life from the foot of the mountain. Through learning to listen to our intuition, we learn to be in contact with the Whole."


"I'm telling you, it's so exciting playing out there because I'm playing well, you have the crowd behind you, and it's such a good feeling. I'm really having a good time out there."

"That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race."

"Since when did psychiatry become one big, fat Myspace survey?"

"Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the developing world, and support in developing their export and import capacity."

"The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration."

"The future starts within a second from now.The past was, within a second ago."

"Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict."

"The mother is the child's first relationship, his whole world, his existence. If there is love in the relationship between the child and the mother, the child learns to trust himself, to trust others and to trust life. If there is no love in the relationship between the mother and the child, the child learns to distrust himself, to distrust others and to distrust life."

"In situations where I feel unclear or I do not know what to say or do, I turn my attention within myself. Then I listen to what my intuition and to what Existence within myself wants in this moment. Through listening within in this way, an answer often comes in the form of a creative and authentic impulse to say or do something or simply being silent until Existence is ready to respond."

"The current climate change is an outer mirror of our inner consciousness. It is an outer mirror of our attitude to try to conquer nature, instead of being in harmony with nature, but in the end the part can never conquer the whole."

"It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes."

"It's always good to get a goal on your first shift, but this was a game it seemed everything was going in."

"Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard."

"That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death."

"The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century."

"We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE."

"My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think."

"People don't act the way they do because of me. They just act out their own projection of reality, and so do I."

"The only thing worse than not getting there is not starting the journey because you are still thinking about how to start it. Just start."

"When you read a book and its words agree with what you think, your view of the world or your feelings at the time, you discover that there are people out there that think like you. That takes away a feeling of loneliness."

"If you don't mind them and accept that they don't like you, you'll see that you won't return the negativity."

"The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned."
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