"A happy life is a life for others."

-- Henri Nouwen

#Happy Life Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“More men have become great through practice than by nature.”
“Did that remind anybody else of something?" "Yes," Eve said, tapping her lower lip with a bloodred fingernail. "How much I need to shave her head while she's sleeping.”
“Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.”
“I've taken challenges with the big risk that it can all go wrong. But that's what I like and I'd rather do that than be safe all the time.”
“When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.”

Source : Quoted in Hesketh Pearson Beerbohm (1956).
“The story [of Allied] stayed with me, like a stray dog outside the office, waiting.”
“True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.”
“I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.”

Source : Roger Lewis (1995). “The Life and Death of Peter Sellers”, Cornerstone

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