"Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment."

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Source : Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

Richard Llewellyn

#Hard Work Quotes #People Quotes #Effort Quotes

“People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.”
“As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always played up against older age groups.”
“Nothing good is ever easy. Or worth it.”
“If I could go back and give myself advice, it would be to embrace failure.”
“Everything had kept getting less, they'd had to leave behind more and more baggage, or else it was taken from them, as though they were now too weak to carry all those things that are part of life, as though someone were trying to force them into old age by relieving them of all this.”

Source : Jenny Erpenbeck (2011). “Visitation”, p.58, Granta Books
“Words become, 'product', so that it is as though you'd bought a 'hand-cooked' packet of crisps; there are different makes, various flavours, but in the end, they're all rather similar and while eating them while sipping white wine makes you feel posher than if you'd bought the bog-standard ones, afterwards you don't remember very much about them.”
“We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power of modern genetic knowledge to bring into being animals that suffer more.”
“If you love your craft there will be passion. Most of my films are with people who are really passionate about what they are doing and know how to do something well.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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