"Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries."

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Source : "The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent".

Blaise Pascal

#Misery Quotes #Distraction Quotes

“The world today is hungry Not only for bread But hungry for love; Hungry to be wanted, Hungry to be loved...”
“When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive”
“Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call”
“Knowledge born from actual experience is the answer to why one profits; lack of it is the reason one loses”

Source : Gerald M. Loeb (2007). “Battle for Investment Survival”, p.1, John Wiley & Sons
“And, obviously as a, as one who likes to travel around myself a lot, I think the Earth is a beautiful place. And, I'm looking forward to some new perspectives.”
“Lehman uses many conveyancesâ€”including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymesâ€”to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive romanticism is always bracing and tough-minded, brimming with a rare generosity.”
“If you have flown, perhaps you can understand the love a pilot develops for flight. It is much the same emotion a man feels for a woman, or a wife for her husband.”

Source : Louise Thaden (1973). “High, Wide and Frightened”, p.15, University of Arkansas Press
“There comes a time in the lives of those destined for greatness when we must stand before the mirror of meaning and ask: Why, having been endowed with the courageous heart of a lion, do we live as mice?”

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