Levi Motivational Quotes

According to Mr. Levy, there is only one answer: “Our motivation is to remove pain.

Logic and morality made it impossible to accept an illogical and immoral reality; they engendered a rejection of reality which as a rule led the cultivated man rapidly to despair. But the varieties of the man-animal are innumerable, and I saw and have described men of refined culture, especially if young, throw all this overboard, simplify and barbarize themselves, and survive. A simple man, accustomed not to ask questions of himself, was beyond the reach of the useless torment of asking himself why. The harsher the oppression, the more widespread among the oppressed is the willingness, with all its infinite nuances and motivations, to collaborate: terror, ideological seduction, servile imitation of the victor, myopic desire for any power whatsoever… Certainly, the greatest responsibility lies with the system, the very structure of the totalitarian state; the concurrent guilt on the part of individual big and small collaborators is always difficult to evaluate… they are the vectors and instruments of the system’s guilt… the room for choices (especially moral choices) was reduced to zero

Both theatre and reality, said Mr Levy, came down to just three words – motivation, intention and goal.

One of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy with our current work or activity. Levi quit his tax-work, Peter stopped fishing at lake, Paul ceased being a priest. They all left their jobs because they thought it was necessary.

Levi’s motives were never quite as obvious. There was an Old Testament ruthlessness about him, Shambler thought, something inscrutably tribal at the root.

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Freud described this wish to unknow what we know as motivated forgetting.

The most important battle is the one you fight within, in your mind and heart, to not give up. If you give up hope, you won’t have the motivation to do anything else in a critical situation.

Healing is an ongoing process, and it’s never done. From a motivational or an attitudinal standpoint, you come at yourself a lot differently if you’re trying to heal than if you’re wanting to fix. To the extent that you are applying more grace and more empathy and more love to yourself as you are navigating behavioral patterns in your life, you are healing more than fixing. Healing is acceptance—radical acceptance. It’s being patient with yourself and not berating yourself up over unmet expectations, either yours or other people’s, and not basing your worth on external validation.

Getting a spark of inspiration to write is the best feeling in the world, no matter what time it is...I get a feeling on the inside that urges me to get up from whatever I am doing, grabbing that pen and writing down whatever my heart and mind tell me too... it's beautiful."

Finally, I had held up examples of Goldhagen's inflammatory language and suggested that he had missed the essence of what Primo Levi once called the 'grey zone' of human affairs, described by the historian Christopher Browning as that foggy universe of mixed motives, conflicting emotions, personal priorities, reluctant choices, opportunism and accomodation, all wedded, when convenient, to self-deception and denial. I thought that by marshalling his research into an overly narrow narrative, painted without nuance in black and white, the author had missed the human complexity and the ordinariness of racism.

Zofia, nu există un bine imens, pe care să ni-l putem reprezenta, pentru simplul motiv că, spre deosebire de rău, binele este invizibil. Binele nu se calculează şi nu se povesteşte, fără să-şi piardă ceva din eleganţa şi din rostul lui. Binele este alcătuit dintr-o cantitate infinită de lucruri mărunte, care, puse cap la cap, poate că vor reuşi să schimbe, până la urmă, lumea. Cere oricui să-ţi numească cinci oameni care au schimbat în bine mersul omenirii. Nu va şti, de exemplu, să-ţi spună cum îl cheamă pe primul democrat sau pe inventatorul antibioticelor sau pe un pacificator. Oricât de ciudat ar părea, puţini oameni ar reuşi să ţi-i citeze; în schimb, îţi vor pomeni, fără nicio problemă, cinci dictatori. Cunoaştem numele tuturor bolilor grave, dar rareori pe cel al celor pe care le-au învins.

Vezi (...), ce haios e. Născocim tot felul de motive ca să nu iubim, de teamă că vom suferi, că vom fi părăsiţi într-o bună zi. Şi totuşi, cât de tare iubim viaţa, deşi ştim că şi ea ne va părăsi într-o bună zi.

My visit was a melancholy one, quite apart from its mournful motive. I had expected tremendous enjoyment from seeing the city again, talking with my old friends, and taking part, if for only a moment, in the busy and complex life with which I was once so familiar. But when I got there I felt isolated, faraway, and unable to adapt myself to the places and persons I had longed to see...Part of me seemed by now foreign to their interests, ambitions, activities, and hopes; their life was no longer mine and it no longer touched me. After a few days, which passed in a flash, I set out again, with no regret...I thought of my feeling of strangeness, and of the complete lack of understanding among those of my friends who concerned themselves with political questions, of the country to which I was now hurrying back...But although they listened with apparent interest, very few of them seemed really to follow what I was saying. They were men of various temperaments and shades of opinion, from stiff-necked conservatives to fiery radicals.

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Putting in effort is like riding a bicycle on train tracks, you will get to where you want to go but you will feel every bump along the way.

Yes, I do. And from Lenny’s doctor, of all people.” “Wonderful, Gus.” “Quiet!” “But you’re the one who’s going to call Lenny’s doctor,” Mr. Levy said to his wife. “I want you to get him to declare Miss Trixie senile and incompetent and to explain the motivation for writing the letter.” “This is your problem,” Mrs. Levy answered angrily. “You call him.” “Susan and Sandra won’t like to hear about their mother’s little mistake.” “And blackmail, too.” “I’ve learned a few things from you. After all, we’ve been married for some time.” Mr. Levy watched anger and anxiety play upon his wife’s face. For once she had nothing to say.