"To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness."

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Source : John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

Emile Durkheim

#Goal Quotes #Unattainable Quotes #Definitions Quotes

“I'm always tempted in the back of my mind to continue to write things in the Star Trek universe, in the novels or the comics, just because I don't get to play in that universe and I don't get to hang out with those characters any more. You spend hours upon hours of your life, day after day sitting in writers' rooms, talking about these people and these situations, and it becomes very real to you. They're friends of yours, in a lot of ways.”
“There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way.”
“No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.”

Source : Noah Webster (1843). “A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects”, p.291
“The only time I talk to a woman when I'm naked is when she's on top of me or I'm on top of her.”
“Cuba will be able to move towards freedom and democracy once again.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“[...] Tess and I are a good match. She understands intimately where I came from. She can cheer me up on my darkest days. It's as if she came perfectly happy home instead of what Kaede just told me. I feel a relaxing warmth at the thought, realizing suddenly how much I'm anticipating meeting up with Tess again. Where she goes, I go, and vice versa. Peas in a pod. Then there's June. Even the thought of her name makes it hard for me to breathe. I'm almost embarrassed by my reaction. Are June and I a good match? No. It's the first word to pop into my mind. And yet, still.”
“Solitude is rich but seldom hilarious.”

Source : Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.123, Island Press
“I had the nightmare when I was like nine or ten or something, I always remembered pieces of that nightmare, the feeling from it. I've always wanted to make a horror film and so I always kept thinking about that nightmare.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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