"Life is better than death. But death comes eventually to everyone. It is something which many in their prime may prefer not to think about. But at 89, I see no point in avoiding the question. What concerns me is: How do I go? Will the end comes swiftly, with a stroke in one of the coronary arteries? Or will it be a stroke in the mind that lays me out in bed for months, semi-comatose? Of the two, I prefer the quick one."

-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Thinking Quotes #Two Quotes #Mind Quotes

“The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.”
“A cold coming they had of it, at this time of the year; just the worst time of the year to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in.”

Source : Of the Nativity sermon 15 (1622) See T. S. Eliot 68
“I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it's very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions”

Source : "'Dog of Flanders' answers Cheryl Ladd's prayers" by Andy Culpepper, www.cnn.com. August 25, 1999.
“I grew up in Chicago on the South Side, and had a ton of freedom, just did whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. At the risk of sounding dopey, I would say it was blissful.”
“When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.”
“It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.”

Source : Thomas Carlyle, Clyde de L. Ryals, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Kenneth J. Fielding, Ian Campbell (1997). “The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: 1850”, Duke University Press Books
“Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.”

Source : Héctor Tobar (2011). “The Barbarian Nurseries: A Novel”, p.257, Macmillan
“The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.”

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