Quotes that Inspired the Film
"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."
- Rumi -
"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."
- Rumi -
"A Gastronomer who is not an environmentalist is just stupid. Whereas an environmentalist who is not a gastronomer is sad. It’s possible to change the world while preserving the concept of the right of pleasure."
– Carlo Petrini, Founder, Slow Food International –
“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”
― Martin Luther King Jr. -
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again,
because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasm, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly...
- Theodore Roosevelt, "The Man in the Arena" -
"I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavours live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours..."
- Henry David Thoreau, "Walden" -