"I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness - they're heartbreaking.[...] What feelings do you suppose a man has when he realizes that he will never know happiness or glory as long as he lives? Hard work. All that amounts to is food for the wild beasts of hunger."

-- Osamu Dazai

#Loneliness Quotes #Hard Work Quotes #Men Quotes

“There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.”
“The more I help out, the more successful I become. But I measure success in what it has done for the people around me. That is the real accolade.”

Source : Adam Grant (2013). “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success”, p.181, Penguin
“Courage has you say in a defiant spirit you can take everything from me, you could cut me deep, you could render me in shame but you will never ever stop me from loving those who mock me, from loving those that hate me, from loving those who don't forgive me, from loving the cynics, from loving the darkness so much that I myself through my small acts of consistent unyielding love may bring on the light.”
“I think the qualities I look for in a girl I'd like to be my girlfriend would be the way Lindsay's character is before she becomes a plastic. Very real.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, 'Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!'”
“But if you want to change the world, don't be afraid of the circuses.”

Source : William H. McRaven's Commencement Address at the University of Texas at Austin, news.utexas.edu. May 16, 2014.
“To an Earthkeeper, love is not a feeling or something your barter with. Love is the essence of who you are, and it radiates from you as a brilliant aura: You become love, practice fearlessness, and attain enlightenment.”

Source : FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Mar 14, 2014
“Everyone has choice when to and not to raise their voices: It's you who decides.”

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