- Bobby Duran: You’re very straight forward.
- Jack Weil: Hey, I can be suave. But I figure you know a lot of suave guys. I’ve got no edge that way. But how many crude guys do you know?
More Quotes from the film Havana
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” — Dalai Lama
“Do not regret growing old. It is a privilege denied to many” – possibly Mark Twain
“Death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart… when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free”.
“If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.”
“The sad truth is that man’s real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites—day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.”
― C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols
“Every transformation demands as its precondition “the ending of a world”-the collapse of an old philosophy of life.”
― C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols
Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.
— Mark Twain
It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
Pain Is Inevitable Suffering is Optional
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
