"What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!"

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James Boswell

#Life Is Quotes #Insignificant Quotes

“How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion.”
“Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era is over.”
“There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find.”
“There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.”

Source : "“No gods” solstice display returns for 7th year to Illinois Capitol". ffrf.org. December 4, 2015.
“The history of science should not be an instrument to defend any kind of social or philosophic theory; it should be used only for its own purpose, to illustrate impartially the working of reason against unreason, the gradual unfolding of truth, in all its forms, whether pleasant or unpleasant, useful of useless, welcome or unwelcome.”

Source : George Sarton (1952). “Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece”, p.14, Courier Corporation
“I use the term happiness to refer to the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one's life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.”

Source : Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.37, Penguin
“The self says, I am; The heart says, I am less; The spirit says, you are Nothing.”
“The true face of the unions is not now a man in a hard hat as much as it is a woman in a classroom or in cleaning smocks.”

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