"Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need. I live more simply now, and with more peace."

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Source : "Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure". Book by Richard E. Byrd, 1938.

Richard E. Byrd

#Letting Go Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Confusion Quotes

“Because we can't comprehend it, and that's what allows us to do it again. And it is the normal, it's the average person that can do this. Again, in an imaginary other universe, maybe we'd have done it. That's the terrible truth that lies at the heart of each of us; that imponderable, 'were I not Jewish, in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, would I have gone down on the other side?'”
“The douchiest thing a guy could do on a date is to make a girl pay. If you invite her out and then make her pay.”
“Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.”
“Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings.”
“I can honestly say that in The Murder City Devils band we achieved everything that I could've ever hoped for or wanted. We did all that, which is the luckiest, craziest, and weirdest thing. Essentially, it was sort of like my dream come true in a way, so once that's happened, you sort of stop being surprised.”
“The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.”
“If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.”
“Someday the world is going to know who I am-just be hearing my first name.”

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