"Death is only a tragedy when life's purpose was left unfulfilled."

-- Orrin Woodward

#Tragedy Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“We have to stop meeting like this." And that was the truest thing ever spoke. I needed to stop staring at his bicep... and chest... and tattoo. Never thought the sun could be so... sexy. Wow. This was awkward. "You running over me, me almost running over you?" Cam elaborated. "It's like we're a catastrophe waiting to happen.”
“Its hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?”
“People hate politicians. And I can understand why.”
“I couldn't be anorexic because I like food too much, and I couldn't be bulimic because I hate throwing up too much”
“Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.”
“You're not what you have and you're not what you do; you're aninfinite, divine being disguised as a successful person who has accumulated a certain amount of stuff. The stuff is not you. For that reason, you must avoid being attached to it in any way.”
“Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.”
“The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.14

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