"If you're spending so much time at the gym that your mail is forwarded there, you're not dedicated - you've got a mental disorder."

-- Dan John

#Mail Quotes #Disorder Quotes #Spending Quotes

“You both ... you both saved me?" "Come on," said Luis. "You make it sound like it was hard for Val to go to the Unseelie Court, strike a deal with Roiben, challenge Mabry to a duel, win back your heart, and then get back here during rush hour.”
“The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.”
“A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence.”
“[Ho Chi Minh] was always conscious that conditions in China and Vietnam were not always the same. He "kowtowed" to the Chinese - as he had to the Soviet Union - in order to receive their assistance, but he quietly worked to limit those forms of influence of which he did not approve (such as the harsh forms of land reform and the Great Leap Forward). Unfortunately, he was not always successful in fending off those forms of external advice that he didn't agree with.”
“In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.”
“Nobody remembers who was the richest toga salesman in Rome.”
“There is beauty everywhere on earth, but there is greater beauty in those places where one feels that sense of ease which comes from no longer having to put off oneâ€™s dreams until some improbable future â€“ a future inexorably shrinking away; where the fear that has pervaded oneâ€™s life suddenly vanishes because there is... nothing to be afraid of.”

Source : Josef Škvorecký (1986). “The engineer of human souls: an entertainment on the old themes of life, women, fate, dreams, the working class, secret agents, love and death”, Picador
“No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.”

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