"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

-- Epicurus

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Motivational Quotes

“Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.”
“She's wearin' heels, boy, but she's five foot seven, you got five inches and at least a hundred pounds on her," Max replied and I figured he was being a might bit generous with the weight but I wasn't going to correct him, mostly because he wasn't done talking. "And, lastly, she's a woman. You don't ever strike a woman in anger.”
“It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.”
“I get up and retire when I wish. I go out if I wish and I do not go out if I do not desire to do so, except for the two days on which I give lectures.”
“Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.”

Source : "Dr. Doom" by Stephen Mihm, www.nytimes.com. August 15, 2008.
“This same economic system, based on short-term growth and endless profits is also the reason for pretty much everything else that is lousy in our society, from private prisons to Fox News. What I'm arguing is that, in fact, what we've been told is a lie.”
“Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on further, that pain in the soul which drives us beyond ourselves...Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - your destiny - are here and now.”
“I don't have any problems in life, just situations.”

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