"I believe the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in that religion or this religion, we are all seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness..."

-- Dalai Lama

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Happiness Quotes

“He knows what I'm thinking. Always. We're connected. The atoms between us ferry messages back and forth.”
“Nationalisation...does not in itself engender greater equality, more jobs in the regions, higher investment or industrial democracy. The public knows this perfectly well, and so do the workers who have suffered from pit closures, steel redundancies and the run-down of the railways. It is idiotic to try to bamboozle them.”

Source : Speech in Rotherham, June 9, 1973.
“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
“Directors should not be forced to advocate anything in their works because of their demographic identity.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?”
“I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe”
“The unwritten rules of behaviour are infinite in number, finely shaded, and subtle to the last fraction of a degree. They are not to be broken. If broken, the rules of forgiveness leading to re-establishment are equally of air and iron. I learn these rules with rather less ease than my contemporaries because, in the back streets of my being, a duel is developing and increasing in fervour between my instinct which knows why something is so, and my hen-pecking intelligence which wishes to analyse why something is so.”

Source : Hal Porter, Mary Lord (1980). “Hal Porter”, Univ of Queensland Pr
“In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.”

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