"There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?"

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Life becomes a habit. You get up, dress, eat, go tae work, clock in etcetera etcetera automatically, and think about nothing but the pay packet on Friday and the booze-up last Saturday. Life's easy when you're a robot.”
“If the world is crazy, maybe it needs a few sane people in the middle of it. Why do monks lock themselves up in monasteries? What's the good of solving your personal suffering if the solution keeps you isolated from everyone else's suffering?”

Source : Tim Ward (2013). “What the Buddha Never Taught: A 'Behind the Robes" Account of Life in a Thai Forest Monastery”, p.47, Changemakers Books
“Veteran art creates a meeting place between veterans and civilians, or simply between veterans with different experiences.”
“I don't work in movies and TV because I adore acting, it's because I adore movies and TV.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.”

Source : Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “Sielanka: A Forest Picture, and Other Stories”
“Of the many qualities I adore about Melissa McCarthy as a comedian and as a dramatic actor, the best is how fully she gives herself to every character she plays.”
“Stripped of all its outer encrustations, spirituality emerges as a science, as scientific as any other, as verifiable in its results. Let any seeker take it up and let him create in the laboratory of the soul the conditions that are prerequisite; as sure as the day follows the night shall he rise into the Kingdom of God.”

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