"Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it."

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Prince Charles

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“Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.”

Source : Douglas Kennedy (2010). “The Pursuit of Happiness: A Novel”, p.582, Simon and Schuster
“As the world continues to turn away from the use of the death penalty, it is a glaring anomaly that China, Saudi Arabia, Iran and the USA stand out for their extreme use of this form of punishment as the 'top' executioners in the world.”
“Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is like quicksilver, our vocabulary like steel. Sometimes a consummate poet succeeds in rendering the quality of life in words. For the rest of us, this is not possible.”
“Don't get bitter, just get better.”
“If you have a large number of unrelated ideas, you have to get quite a distance away from them to get a view of all of them, and this is the role of abstraction. If you look at each too closely you see too many details. If you get far away things may appear simpler because you can only see the large, broad outlines; you do not get lost in petty details.”
“Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.”

Source : Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. September 13, 2000.
“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”

Source : Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Mysticism of Sound, Music, The Power of the Word, Cosmic Language”, Library of Alexandria
“And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity. Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself.”

Source : Matt Haig (2015). “Reasons to Stay Alive”, p.100, Canongate Books

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