"The two-fold goal of all human striving is the avoidance of pain, and the fulfillment of happiness."

-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Pain Quotes #Two Quotes #Goal Quotes

“On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time - Communism and Freedom - came to grips in the persons of two conscious and resolute men.”
“Always it is thus with my new students, and especially with the human ones; the mind is the last muscle they train or use, and the one that they regard the least. Ask them about swordplay and they can list every blow from a duel a month old, but ask them to solve a problem or make a coherent statement and... well, I would be lucky to get more than a blank stare in return.”
“Working on the 'Ice Age' movies, I'm really proud to be in them.”
“Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.”
“This country cannot be the country we want it to be if its story is told by only one group of citizens. Our goal is to give all Americans front door access to the truth,”

Source : Robert C. Maynard, Dori J. Maynard (1995). “Letters to my children”, Andrews McMeel Pub
“I wasn't as nervous as I thought I would be when I started”
“As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.”

Source : Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields (1851). “De Quincey's Writings: Miscellaneous essays. 1851”, p.24
“The techno-industrial system is exceptionally tough due to its so-called "democratic" structure and its resulting flexibility. Because dictatorial systems tend to be rigid, social tensions and resistance can be built up in them to the point where they damage and weaken the system and may lead to revolution. But in a "democratic" system, when social tension and resistance build up dangerously the system backs off enough, it compromises enough, to bring the tensions down to a safe level.”

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