"I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you'd told yourself was a Zen detachment turns out to be naked fear. You'd had one serious love relationship in your life and it had ended in tragedy, and the tragedy had broken something inside you. But instead of trying to repair the broken place, or at least really stop and look at it, you skated and joked. You had friends, you were a decent citizen. You hurt no one. And your life was somehow just about half of what it could be."

-- Roland Merullo

#Hurt Quotes #Drawing Quotes #Broken Quotes

“Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?”
“You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jojo Moyes from Mar 05, 2013
“The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.”
“It has often been said that, to make discoveries, one must be ignorant. This opinion, mistaken in itself, nevertheless conceals a truth. It means that it is better to know nothing than to keep in mind fixed ideas based on theories whose confirmation we constantly seek, neglecting meanwhile everything that fails to agree with them.”

Source : "An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine".
“But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.”
“There are people in the world who aren't necessarily Christians, but they're just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.”
“I'm not looking for Miss Right, right now. I'm just sort of working on becoming Mr. Right.”
“The presidency is not an office job.”

Source : Financial Times Interview, October 04, 2007.

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