"..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it."

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Eric Weiner

#Want Quotes #Pleasure Quotes #Achieve Quotes

“You think you got something big to say? Something momentous? Or is it what you had to memorize in order to escape the men with lightning in their eyes?”

Source : John Yau (2002). “Borrowed Love Poems”, p.31, Penguin
“I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let's see if I can do it.”
“I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.”
“You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year...unfortunately, I had been in the majors for two years at the time.”
“Life is the game that must be played.”
“I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I've learned a lot about language from reading slush. You can immediately tell if a writer is in control of the narrative. This writer will avoid using too many words like "possibly," "probably," "maybe," "perhaps," etc. He/she will avoid using clichÃ©s, as well as a lot of metaphors, and won't take four sentences to say what they could in one (or write a great sentence and follow it up with a bunch of stuff that just weakens it).”
“Great and small suffer the same mishaps.”

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