"Despite the amount of suffering, pain, misery, sorrow and travail which can exist in life, the reason for existence is the same reason as one has to play a game-interest, contest, activity and possession. The truth of this assertion is established by an observation of the elements of games and then applying these elements to life itself."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Pain Quotes #Games Quotes #Play Quotes

“Without the New York Times, there is no blog community. They'd have nothing to blog about.”
“The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.”
“Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.”
“Just as our fingerprints are one-of-a-kind, so is our identity. Each of us is a once-only articulation of what humans can be. We are rare, unmatched, mysterious. This is why the quality of openness is so crucial to our self-discovery. We cannot know ourselves by who we think we are, who others take us to be, or what our driver's license may say. We are fields of potential, some now actualized, most not yet.”
“I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!”
“Im always intrigued when you are travelling through a place and there is somebody who has lived there and done the same job for years.”
“[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.”

Source : Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.43, Simon and Schuster
“I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.”

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