"Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace."

-- Aristotle

#War Quotes #May Quotes #Leisure Quotes

“I like to work for a while, and then do nothing for some period.”
“I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.”
“For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.”

Source : FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Jul 03, 2011
“Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around.”
“Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.”

Source : John James Ingalls (1902). “A Collection of the Writings of John James Ingalls: Essays, Addresses, and Orations”
“Best ever was filming in Barcelona last year, and I had a couple of scenes with De Niro. He's a very shy man. Speaks so quietly that people tend to bend down and adopt the same tone, almost the same voice, whenever they talk to him - watching, you'd think someone's offering to carry out a hit for him when they're just offering him a cup of coffee.”

Source : "Toby Jones: ' So Robert de Niro booked us a table at El Bulli'". Interview With Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.
“Just because I said lyrics are a sign of the inability to sing doesn't mean....A) I believe that, or B) I don't think they're cool. They are cool. Words are great. I sing along with my favorite songs, but when I am drumming and singing, the words become a note that for me. In the process of playing they have more emotional impact as notes then an actual word.”
“As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events.”

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