"Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy in it; if that man is left at any time without occupation or amusement, and reflects on what he is, the meagre, languid felicity of his present lot will not bear him up. He will turn necessarily to gloomy anticipations of the future; and unless his occupation calls him out of himself, he is inevitably wretched."

-- Blaise Pascal

#Happiness Quotes #Men Quotes #Occupation Quotes

“The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.”
“...We have seven people who knew the skewers were there: the wedding planner, the reception hall manager, the dressmaker, the florist, the veil-maker, the cake-maker, and the caterer. I haven't ruled out the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker, either.”

Source : Linda Howard (2010). “Veil of Night: A Novel”, p.139, Ballantine Books
“Expect the unexpected, is what I'd say about Taboo. It's different. I don't think you've seen anything like it. It's getting incredible responses, so fingers crossed.”
“O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life....”

Source : Francis of Assisi (2017). “St. Francis of Assisi's Prayers”, p.72, Paper & Ink
“I've noticed that sometimes when you keep things a little smaller, it's easier to focus on the creative aspects of what you're doing.”

Source : Interview With Martin Scorsese, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 17, 2010.
“My goal is that after I am dead and gone, I want people to remember me for the person I am.”
“A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.”
“Ever since I was little I really loved boyish clothes - I had a real obsession with strict clothes, like uniforms. They really got me going,.”

Source : "Opposites attract". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2005.

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