"I studiously avoided all so-called "holy men." I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept from others what I could not attain on my own. I would have felt it as a theft had I attempted to learn from the holy men and to accept their truth for myself. Neither in Europe can I make any borrowings from the East, but must shape my life out of myself-out of what my inner being tells me, or what nature brings to me."
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"Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist."
"When a Dalmatian sees a cow he must be like, 'What the hell happened to him? I am high right now. That dalmatian is fat and smeary.' When the cow sees the Dalmatian he must be like, 'He looks amazing. I am so out of shape, this is ridiculous. My tits are on the ground here."
"A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul."
"Man must shape his tools lest they shape him."
"Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man"
"We shape our homes and then our homes shape us."
"Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on unnatural conditions rather than on those vast forces not of man's making that shape and channel the nature and direction of life."
"It's your decisions, not your conditions, which shape your life."
"A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life."
"Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape."
"I love to do films of all shapes and sizes and feelings and genres. So for me to go from Tomb Raider straight into Dear Frankie, there's nothing that excites me more than to keep mixing it up."
"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image."
"The visions we offer our children shape the future."
"Next time you meet a 'foreigner', remember it's only like a window with a different shape to it and the person who's sitting inside is you."
"We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know."
"Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains."
"You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do, or you respond to someone else's plan for you."
"It's not what we do once in a while that counts, but our habitual actions. What ultimately determines who we become and where we go in life are our decisions. These decisions shape our destiny."
"Your Philosophy of life shapes you more than anything else"