"May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends. [Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares.]"

-- Ovid

#Years Quotes #Contentment Quotes #May Quotes

“True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.”

Source : Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage”, p.123, Profile Books
“If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.”
“I'm not into red carpet looks where it's clear the woman wanted to look like a pretty, pretty princess.”
“One is that that's the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that's of value to Web sites.”
“At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.”
“Nobody is trying to save energy. We're trying to shift our use of fuel. Forget saving energy; if we get the right kind of energy, there are endless amounts.”
“Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.”
“Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.”

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