Helfgott Cantor Quotes & Sayings

I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate. — George Burns

Now is the moment to live fully, and live in happiness. If there is no happiness today, how can you expect to be happy tomorrow? — Satish Kumar

Character: The ability to carry out a worthy decision after the emotion of making that decision has passed. Character simply stated is doing what you said you were going to do. If you develop a reputation for that, do you have any idea the effect that has on self-perception? Its immense, just immense. The Savior was a man of character. He did everything he said he was going to do. — Hyrum W. Smith

No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man; she knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not. — Olive Schreiner

Prostitution is, essentially, not a capitalist phenomenon but a patriarchal one. It did not automatically occur when people began to buy and sell but is instead rooted in the relationship between men and women. But when prostitution is incorporated an advanced, highly developed market economy, this complex power struggle itself becomes a commodity. Sex is separated from the person and becomes supernatural. — Kajsa Ekis Ekman

For two hours I'd felt myself stretching tighter and tighter, like a rubber band pulled to the point of snapping. And now, I could feel the smaller, weaker part of myself beginning to fray, tiny bits giving way before the big break. — Sarah Dessen

The truth is the thing I invented so that I could survive. — Nicole Krauss

I can do everything with my language but not with my body. What I hide by my language, my body utters. I can deliberately mold my message, not my voice. By my voice, whatever it says, the other will recognize "that something is wrong with me". I am a liar (by preterition), not an actor. My body is a stubborn child, my language is a very civilized adult ... — Roland Barthes

As I get considerably beyond the biblical allotment of three score years and ten, I feel with increasing intensity that I can express my gratitude for still being around on the oxygen-side of the earth's crust only by not standing pat on what I have hitherto known and loved. While oxygen lasts, there are still new things to love, especially if compassion is a form of love. — Norman Maclean

Compassion is subtler than Vitamin C, but both are real needs. — Deepak Chopra

We view art in order to escape our own skins, to get outside of the commotion inside our skulls. — Kilroy J. Oldster

I made three works about men in my life. But I had much more than three men. I never wrote about them. — Sophie Calle