"What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate."

-- Paulo Coelho

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Happiness Quotes

“Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?”
“One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.”
“Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated.”

Source : Herbert von Karajan, Richard Osborne (1989). “Conversations with Karajan”
“Some people insist they've never met a gay person. But Three Degrees of Jason Collins dictates that no NBA player can claim that anymore. Pro basketball is a family. And pretty much every family I know has a brother, sister or cousin who's gay. In the brotherhood of the NBA, I just happen to be the one who's out.”

Source : "Why NBA center Jason Collins is coming out now" by Jason Collins, www.si.com. April 29, 2013.
“Torture gives you reliable and unreliable information. That's the reason why most people in the world don't do it. So this idea that you have to torture people in order to protect national security is a false argument, and I reject it.”
“Well, let me tell you, after three years of Obama, we are hopeless and changeless, and we need Mitt Romney to bring us back, to bring America back.”
“... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season.”
“The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need.”

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