"If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness."

-- Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

#Believe Quotes #Relaxation Quotes #Calm Quotes

“The same mistakes can never be repeated.”

Source : "NFL Scandal: Roger Goodell Pledges 'Same Mistakes Can Never Be Repeated'" by Hilary Lewis and Erik Hayden, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 19, 2014.
“If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless. If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.”
“Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.”
“We're allowed to have had a private life before politics in which we make mistakes and do things we should not.”
“The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.”
“Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe, and restores to us forgotten paradises.”
“Life can make you do many things, even kiss a man with a runny nose.”

Source : "Mikhail Kalashnikov: 'I sleep soundly'". Interview with Nick Paton Walsh, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2003.
“The past does not influence me; I influence it.”

Source : "Bloodroot" by Seth Colter Walls, pitchfork.com. April 20, 2017.

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