"All human happiness is sensuous happiness."

-- Lin Yutang

#Happiness Quotes #Humans Quotes

“I've definitely been in relationships with friends where I wanted to do something different than I know a friend has. It's that complicated balance between wanting to do what you know is right for you and not wanting to hurt someone's feelings. I think that's a part of growing up.”
“I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.”
“Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.”
“I am in no doubt that if you use the term 'luv' in a letter or text message then you are incapable of truly understanding the emotion. Artists have not pored over heartache and unrequited sentimentality for years so that our generation could decide that four letters is simply one too many to express how we feel.”
“I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.”
“The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement.”

Source : Jane Wilson-Howarth (2012). “A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas”, p.375, Bradt Travel Guides
“The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.”
“If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars. My salary was the same for 10 years. It was all performance-based.”

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