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Quotes by Swedish Authors
"Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money."
"More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament."
"For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here."
"Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them."
"In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure."
"One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security."
"Love is what creates the freedom and relaxation to be who we really are."
"I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18."
"No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations."
"Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up."
"It is astonishing to realize that growing up actually means to become one with Existence. It means to find the whole Existence within myself, it means to discover that Existence is alive in my own heart and being. The song of a bird echoes my own inner voice, the beauty of a flower reflects my own inner beauty, a dog becomes an expression of my own unconditional love and friendship, the majestic mountains create an exstatic joy, and I discover all the shining stars of the sky within my own heart. It is to realize that the whole Existence is alive, and that the underlying thread of consciousness is God."
"When we are, love is not.When we are not, love is."
"Of course, competition against others is there, but it should serve to challenge you. To show you how well other people are competing against themselves."
"Those that know where they are going will not take any path they see in front of them, but they will take the one that goes in the direction they want."
"You are fifty different kinds of twisted.""Only fifty? Val, you wound me."
"I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one."
"Great things often come from actions and decisions taken by others, that are deemed wild, stupid or unreasonable at the time, but later prove to be very useful."
"Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique."
"I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project."
"My worth changes with every choice I make and every action I take. I can choose myself to uselessness or to being valuable."
"It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!"
"Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong."
"Deep within ourselves, we find the inner being, the inner source of love, which is our true nature. Love is the only reality, because only love works."
"Love means to realise that we are one with life. Real love means to realise that we are one with the other person, one with nature, and one with the trees, the stones, the earth and the blue sky. It means to realise that all of life is God."
"I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels."
"The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men."
"Intuition is already in contact with Existence. Intuition is already in contact with that, which is larger than ourselves."
"We also have a conference call feature where up to five people can talk on one Skype call."
"The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization."
"A responsible person accepts the results of his choices, attributing blame or praise to himself; that is what makes you happy with the way you turned out."
"The most important issue we have to deal with is freedom of movement."
"Hatred is about possession. It is all-consuming, cruel, and vainglorious. When love is allowed to fester, it becomes twisted and corrupt; it settles deep in the heart...and metastasizes, sending its dark roots through the body to raze all that stands in its way. Love is chaste and pure. Love is banal....No, hatred has infinitely more possibilities."
"I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them."
"What do you want to do with your life, then? is often the question I'm asked.To be honest, I don't know. I really don't.Mainly because I don't see myself living long enough for that to make much of a difference."
"Change is a friend to a life with a vision, but an enemy to an aimless person."
"People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do."
"I am very proud to follow the rules of our company."
"It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on Google you don't pay for that. But sometimes you click on an advert and Google makes money on that."
"Presence is to meet another person in meditation. Presence is to invite another person in meditation. It is a meeting in love, joy, acceptance, sincerity, truth, silence and oneness."
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