"We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery."

-- Alessandro Baricco

#Mean Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Use Quotes

“I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.”
“Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling.”
“If you're a prostitute, this is your day: You party, you have customers until four or six in the morning, then you sleep. You wake at noon, watch soaps on TV, take two or three hours to fancy up yourself, and then you start waiting for customers. That's your life. And some days no customers come. There's no party. There's nothing. You sit there and wait. If you're educated you can read books, but in Bangladesh and most other places you watch TV or listen to music or cook.”
“...It had been a perfect nap -- the sort a man runs into now and again by chance...”
“I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.”

Source : "Frances Bean Cobain Says Dave Grohl Never Creeped on Her" by Christopher R. Weingarten, www.spin.com. April 12, 2012.
“When you need advice- do you seek someone who has proven success or do you get advice from people who have never achieved what you desire?”
“There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.”
“Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.”

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