"It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you."

-- Jon Krakauer

#Memories Quotes #Real Quotes #Joy Quotes

“I'd seen 'Interview with A Vampire' and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, 'I love vampires; I have to do a show about vampires.'”
“Toupée or not toupée for professional government: that is the hair-raising question created by Donald Trump's candidacy.”
“It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.”

Source : Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1856). “Wise-saws: Or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife”, p.219
“Compassion automatically brings happiness and calmness. Then, even if you receive disturbing news, it will be easier to take, as your mind is still.”
“The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.”
“It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function in Athens for over nine hundred years.”
“Goodbye, kind year, we walk no more together. But here in quiet happiness we part.”
“Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.”

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