"There was still gold and silver in the mountains, And hunger was a more immediate sorrow"

“Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.”

“The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained”

“It was like their lives were overlapping lines, like they had their own gravity. Usually, that serendipity thing felt like the nicest thing the universe had ever done for her.”

“No other road, no other way, no day but today.”

Source : "Rent". Musical by Jonathan Larson, 1996.

“Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace.”

“I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation; that love and loss conjoined are the best opportunity we get to live fully, to be our strongest, our most compassionate, our most graceful selves.”

“A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work into something that isn’t drudgery and slavery, and then work and life can become one thing.”

“Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as flamboyant as I can.”

Source : "Danny Boyle: 'As soon as you think you can do whatever you want... then you're sunk'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2010.