"Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment, But lives at peace, within himself content; In thought, or act, accountable to none But to himself, and to the gods alone."

-- George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

#Men Quotes #Mind Quotes #Desire Quotes

“I try to incorporate faith every day, to not remind myself of past failures, to learn how to forgive and to trust the future.”
“I'm not making fun of it because I want to make fun of it. I'm making fun of it so I feel better. I don't want people to think any time there's a tragedy that I'm going to make a joke about it. It's only funny to me because it's personal to me. And that was always the goal. It wasn't to be this insult person.”
“Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]”
“There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it's in all the textbooks.”
“Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.”
“There is no rewind button for life.”

Source : Nam June Paik, Hong-hŭi Kim (2007). “Nam June Paik and Korea, from fantasy to hyperreality”
“A soulmate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communicating and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace.”

Source : Thomas Moore (1994). “Soul Mates: Honouring the Mysteries of Love and Relationship”, HarperElement
“A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.”

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