"The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less."

--

Source : "Letters to Olga". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1988.

Vaclav Havel

#Hero Quotes #Men Quotes #Tragedy Quotes

“Have you ever fully realized that life is, after all, merely a series of habits, and that it lies entirely within one's own power to determine just what that series shall be?”

Source : Ralph Waldo Trine (2013). “What All the World's A-Seeking”, p.29, Simon and Schuster
“I knew then that the person on the outside was only a shell, a presence to be seen and provoked. Inside was the real me, where my tears joined the tears of all the sad people to form the three waterfalls in the night country.”
“Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon.”
“Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.”
“To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.”

Source : Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.110, Transaction Publishers
“Life begins at 40, and I'm living proof.”
“You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand”
“No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.”

You may also like:

Alexander Dubcek
Politician
Helmut Kohl
Former Chancellor of Germany
Lech Walesa
Former President of Poland
Michael Frayn
Playwright
Mikhail Gorbachev
Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Milos Zeman
President of the Czech Republic
Nicolae Ceausescu
Former President of Romania
Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
Politician
Vaclav Klaus
Former President of the Czech Republic