Amor Fati Quotes

#1. My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it - all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary - but love it

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the future, not in the past, not for all eternity. Not only to endure what is necessary, still less to conceal it - all idealism is falseness in the face of necessity - , but to love it ...

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. My formula is Amor fati: ... not only to bear up under every necessity, but to love it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. I realized there was very little in Hollywood I would ever feel comfortable doing. If I kept one foot there and one foot in my Christianity, I would never grow.

Willie Aames

#5. Shadows of what you'll become. Silhouettes.

Jeff Hirsch

#6. It's a difficult thing having a heart made of glass; people don't seem to realize how easily it shatters. How often I've swept up the pieces and carefully glued them back together.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#7. Can make you shudder and writhe without even touching your pussy.

Lauren Blakely

#8. An epigram a day keeps the mind from going astray.

Dr Steven Bottomley

#9. By setting up a universe which tends to hold everything we do, see, and say in the sway of its cosmos, an archetype is best comparable with a God

James Hillman

#10. Getting candor right - with your reports, your peers, and your boss - is a skill that can make or break your career.

Jack Welch

#11. Sometimes it looks like I'm dancing, but it's just that I walked into a spider web.

Demetri Martin

#12. Julie's cookery is actually improving," Paul wrote Charlie [his twin]. "I didn't quite believe it would, just between us, but it really is. It's simpler, more classical ... I envy her this chance. It would be such fun to be doing it at the same time with her.

Julia Child

#13. Mute in that golden silence hung with green,
Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyes
Remembrance of all beauty that has been,
And stillness from the pools of Paradise.

Siegfried Sassoon

#14. Mystical insight and enlightenment occur when the veil between the worlds is lifted, the worlds are bridged, the gap closes, and we cross over.

Tom Cowan