"Why do men learn through pain and suffering, and not through pleasure and happiness? Very simply, because pleasure and happiness accustom one to satisfaction with the things given in this world, whereas pain and suffering drive one to seek a more profound happiness beyond the limitations of this world."

-- Seraphim Rose

#Pain Quotes #Men Quotes #Profound Quotes

“Repartee is the soul of conversation.”
“I'm looking at everything with a clear eye and an attitude of acceptance rather than skepticism. I realized, this isn't a career - this is my life. This is what I do. It doesn't matter what the size of the role is. It matter that you're enjoying yourself. And I'm loving it.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“Some commentators have drawn such a stark and gloomy picture of the Weimar Republic's early difficulties that the Republic seems foredoomed to failure from the outset... The conditions in which Weimar democracy were born were certainly not such as to help it flourish; and as it unfolded, it was clearly saddled with a burden of problems, in a range of areas.”

Source : Mary Fulbrook (2014). “A History of Germany 1918-2014: The Divided Nation”, p.15, John Wiley & Sons
“Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.”

Source : "PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Charles Durning". Playbill On-Line Interview, www.playbill.com. February 22, 2000.
“Iâ€™ve got a magic charm That I keep up my sleeve, I can walk the ocean floor And never have to breathe.”
“But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.”
“Biology always beats will power.”
“If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.”

Source : James Beard (2015). “James Beard's Theory and Practice of Good Cooking”, p.96, Open Road Media

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