"For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat, assassinations, famines, massacres and tsunamis, and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle."

-- Jo Nesbo

#Country Quotes #Home Quotes #Years Quotes

“suffering sweetens the reward”

Source : F. E. Higgins (2008). “The Bone Magician”, Pan Macmillan
“Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.”
“the blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light.”
“I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.”
“The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I will point out that I am a greater reformer than any one of them. They want to reform only little bits. I want root-and-branch reform.”
“Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important”
“I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.”

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